High-power ultrafast fiber laser systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 233-244

  Limpert, Jens ^a,b,d   Röser, Fabian ^a,b   Schreiber, Thomas ^a,b,d   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c,d  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Fiber laser and am plifiers; Microstructured fibers; Nonlinear fiber optics; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; FIBER LASER AND AM-PLIFIERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE GENERATORS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33646711879     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.872729     Document Type: Article

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