Compact multi-Watt picosecond coherent white light sources using multiple-taper fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1734-1742

  Teipel, Jörn ^a   Türke, Diana ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a   Zintl, Andreas ^b   Braun, Bernd ^b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b JENOPTIK Laser Optik Systeme GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; NEODYMIUM; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THROUGHPUT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

NONLINEAR OPTICS, FIBERS; OPTICAL DEVICES, SOURCES; SUPERCONTINUA; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN FIBERS; VISIBLE LASERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 17444369804     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001734     Document Type: Article

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