Excited-state absorption as a source of
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A. V. Kir'yanov; N. N. Il'ichev; Yu. O. Barmenkov
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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.