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Excited-state absorption as a source of nonlinear thermo-induced lensing and self-Q-switching in an all-fiber Erbium laser

✍ Scribed by A. V. Kir'yanov; N. N. Il'ichev; Yu. O. Barmenkov


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
276 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-2011

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✦ Synopsis


A modeling of an all-fiber self-Q-switched Erbium laser
is developed, implying that the mechanism of self-Q-switching is
the power-dependent thermo-induced lensing in Erbium fiber that
stems from the excited-state absorption at the laser wavelength.