Megawatt peak-power pulsed fiber sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6261 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Di Teodoro, Fabio ^a  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

MASTER-OSCILLATOR/POWER-AMPLIFIER (MOPA); MICROCHIP LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY (PRF);

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33747354630     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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