Large-mode-area erbium-ytterbium-doped photonic-crystal fiber amplifier yielding 54-kW femtosecond pulses without chirped-pulse amplification

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 98, Issue , 2005, Pages 547-552

  Shirakawa, Akira ^a   Ota, Jun ^a   Musha, Mitsuru ^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

CLADDING (COATING); ERBIUM; LASER MODES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; FEMTOSECOND FIBER AMPLIFIER; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBER AMPLIFIER; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645229141     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2005.547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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