Generation of high-power femtosecond pulse and octave-spanning ultrabroad supercontinuum using all-fiber system

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-39

  Takayanagi, Jun ^a   Nishizawa, Norihiko ^a   Nagai, Hiroyuki ^b   Yoshida, Makoto ^b   Goto, Toshio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AISIN SEIKI CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical pulse amplifiers; Optical pulses

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ERBIUM; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ALL-FIBER SYSTEM; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER (EDF) LASER; HIGH POWER FEMTOSECOND PULSE; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PULSES; ULTRABROAD SUPERCONTINUUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 12344295639     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837741     Document Type: Article

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