Simultaneous pulse amplification and compression in all-fiber-integrated pre-chirped large-mode-area Er-doped fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2993-2999

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a   Lin, Ying Tsung ^c   Lee, Chao Kuei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IMAGE COMPRESSION; LASER PULSES; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIBER LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR SOLITONS; PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PULSEWIDTH;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33947427097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002993     Document Type: Article

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