A. S. Kurkov, V. I. Karpov, A. Yu. Laptev, O. I. Medvedkov, E. M. Dianov, A. N. Gur'yanov, S. A. Vasil'ev, V. M. Paramonov, V. N. Protopopov, A. A. Umnikov, N. I. Vechkanov, V. G. Artyushenko, J. Frahm, “Highly efficient cladding-pumped fibre laser based on an ytterbium-doped optical fibre and a fibre Bragg grating”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 1999, Volume 27, Number 3,Pages <nobr>239

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Lasers

Highly efficient cladding-pumped fibre laser based on an ytterbium-doped optical fibre and a fibre Bragg grating

A. S. Kurkov^a, V. I. Karpov^a, A. Yu. Laptev^b, O. I. Medvedkov^a, E. M. Dianov^a, A. N. Gur'yanov^b, S. A. Vasil'ev^a, V. M. Paramonov^a, V. N. Protopopov^a, A. A. Umnikov^b, N. I. Vechkanov^b, V. G. Artyushenko^c, J. Frahm^c

^a Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod
^c Advanced Photonic Systems, APhS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Abstract: Ytterbium-ion-doped double-clad optical fibres were developed. The differential quantum efficiency of a diode-pumped fibre laser, fabricated on the basis of such optical fibres with a fibre Bragg grating, was 90%.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.55.Xe, 42.81.Qb, 42.79.Dj

Received: 11.01.1999