0.7 W all-fiber Erbium oscillator generating 64 fs wave breaking-free pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6305-6309

  Ruehl, Axel ^a   Hundertmark, Holger ^a   Wandt, Dieter ^a   Fallnich, Carsten ^a   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RAMAN SCATTERING;

PULSE ENERGY; PUMP POWER; RAMAN FIBER ASSEMBLY; WAVE BREAKING-FREE PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24044486252     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006305     Document Type: Article

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