Totally fiber integrated, figure-of-eight, femtosecond source at 1065 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-269

  Avdokhin, A V ^a,b   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NTO IRE POLUS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; YTTERBIUM;

FEMTOSECOND LASER; HOLEY FIBERS (HF); LIGHT DISPERSIONS; POLARIZATION ROTATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0142108009     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000265     Document Type: Article

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