Numerical simulation of the amplification of a short laser pulse by a ytterbium doped amplifier longitudinally pumped by short pump pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4695-4700

  Bourdet, Gilbert L ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

END PUMPED YTTERBIUM (YB) AMPLIFIERS; SHORT PUMP PULSES; TI:SAPPHIRE LASER; YTTERBIUM DOPED AMPLIFIERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 33746159410     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004695     Document Type: Article

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