Diode-pumped, ultrafast, multi-octave supercontinuum source at repetition rates between 500 kHz and 20 MHz using Yb:glass lasers and tapered fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1477-1485

  Teipel, Jörn ^a   Türke, Diana ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a   Killi, Alexander ^b   Morgner, Uwe ^b   Lederer, Max ^c   Kopf, Daniel ^c   Kolesik, Miroslav ^d  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ANGEWANDTE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c High Q Laser Production GmbH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PULSE ENERGY; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; TAPERED FIBERS; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN FIBERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 17444405342     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001477     Document Type: Article

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