A 980-nm Yb-doped fiber MOPA source and its frequency doubling

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1032-1034

  Soh, D B S ^a   Codemard, C ^a   Wang, S ^b   Nilsson, J ^a   Sahu, J K ^a   Laurell, F ^b   Philippov, V ^a   Jeong, Y ^a   Alegria, C ^a   Baek, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blue; Fiber laser; Frequency doubling; Master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA); Potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP)

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LASER TUNING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TEMPERATURE; YTTERBIUM;

MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 11144356627     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824952     Document Type: Article

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