High-energy and high-peak-power nanosecond pulse generation with beam quality control in 200-μm core highly multimode Yb-doped fiber amplifiers

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 358-360

  Cheng, Ming Yuan ^a   Chang, Yu Chung ^a   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^a   Mamidipudi, Pri ^b   Changkakoti, Rupak ^b   Gatchell, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Optical Air Data Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTO-OPTIC GATES; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); BEAM QUALITY CONTROL; NANOSECOND PULSE GENERATION;

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FIBER LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 14544299589     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000358     Document Type: Article

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