MW peak-power, mJ pulse energy, multi-kHz repetition rate pulses from Yb-doped fiber amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Di Teodoro, Fabio ^a   Brooks, Christopher D ^a  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER THEORY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); PULSE REPETITION RATE (PRR); SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL RODS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33646010366     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.655703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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