Design and characteristics of a tapered amplifier diode system by seeding with continuous-wave and mode-locked external cavity diode laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Xiong, Yihan ^a   Murphy, Sytil ^a   Caristen, J L ^a   Repasky, Kevin S ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplification; Antireflection coating; Collimation; Continuous wave external cavity diode laser; Mode locked external cavity diode laser; System alignment; Tapered amplifier diode system

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASER; MODE-LOCKED EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASER; TAPERED AMPLIFIER DIODE SYSTEM;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33947229009     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2404925     Document Type: Article

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