Efficient visible and UV generation by frequency conversion of a mode-filtered fiber amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4974, Issue , 2003, Pages 230-235

  Kliner, Dahv A V ^a   Di Teodoro, Fabio ^b   Koplow, Jeffrey P ^b   Moore, Sean W ^b   Smith, Arlee V ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Ultraviolet generation; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

HIGH NONLINEAR CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH PEAK POWER PULSES; ULTRAVIOLET GENERATION; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0344420164     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.502207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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