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Fundamentals of Fiber Lasers and Fiber Amplifiers

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The field of fiber lasers was born in 1961—almost simultaneously with the achievement of the first laser action when Snitzer first published his famous paper on laser oscillation in glass and then on the possibility of fiber laser operation.

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Ter-Mikirtychev, V.(. (2014). Introduction. In: Fundamentals of Fiber Lasers and Fiber Amplifiers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02338-0_1

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