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Rare-earth fibres power up

Nature Photonics volume 5, pages 466–467 (2011)Cite this article

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Important developments in fibre technology now allow the realization of fibre lasers with reliable and stable single-mode operation at power levels beyond 1 kW.

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Figure 2: Measured slope efficiency and beam quality of an optimized Yb-doped fibre MOPA.
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  1. Bryce Samson, Adrian Carter and Kanishka Tankala are at Nufern, 7 Airport Park Road, East Granby, Connecticut 06026, USA,

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Samson, B., Carter, A. & Tankala, K. Rare-earth fibres power up. Nature Photon 5, 466–467 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.170

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