Millijoule, high-peak power, narrow-linewidth, sub-hundred nanosecond pulsed fibre Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier at 1.55 μm

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-176

  Codemard, Christophe ^a   Farrell, Carl ^a   Dupriez, Pascal ^a   Philippov, Valery ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doped fiber; Erbium; High energy; MOPA; Pulsed laser; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646510741     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2006.01.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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