Large-mode-area erbium-ytterbium-doped photonic-crystal fiber amplifier for high-energy femtosecond pulses at 1.55 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1221-1227

  Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Ota, Jun ^a   Musha, Mitsuru ^a   Nakagawa, Ken'ichi ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Folkenberg, Jacob Riis ^b   Broeng, Jes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM ALLOYS; FIBER LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FIBER OPTICS AMPLIFIERS; PULSE PROPAGATION; SINGLE MODE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 14744295930     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001221     Document Type: Article

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