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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 9, 977(2019)

Pump scheme optimization of an incoherently pumped high-power random fiber laser

Jun Ye¹, Jiangming Xu^1、*, Jiaxin Song¹, Yang Zhang¹, Hanwei Zhang¹, Hu Xiao¹, Jinyong Leng¹, and Pu Zhou^1,2

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¹College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

²e-mail: zhoupu203@163.com

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Apr. 30, 2019

Accepted: Jul. 4, 2019

Published Online: Aug. 7, 2019

The Author Email: Jiangming Xu (jmxu1988@163.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000977

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