Multi-kilowatt, all-fiber integrated chirped-pulse amplification system yielding 40× pulse compression using air-core fiber and conventional erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 405-409

  De Matos, C J S ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

AIR-CORE FIBERS; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); POHOTONIC BAND-GAP FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2942733494     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000405     Document Type: Article

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