Title :
Investigation of self pulsing in Ytterbium-doped high power fiber amplifiers
Author :
Panbiharwala, Y. ; Sathish Kumar, C. ; Venkitesh, Deepa ; Srinivasan, Bama
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Abstract :
We investigate self-pulsing phenomena in Yb-doped fiber amplifiers operated in the Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) configuration and find that the pulsing happens due to saturable absorption in certain sections of the doped fiber.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturable absorption; oscillators; power amplifiers; ytterbium; MOPA; master oscillator power amplifier; saturable absorption; self-pulsing phenomena; ytterbium-doped high power fiber amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
