High-power fiber amplifier with widely tunable repetition rate, fixed pulse duration, and multiple output wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11528-11538

  Schrader, Paul E ^a   Farrow, Roger L ^a   Kliner, Dahv A V ^a   Fève, Jean Philippe ^b   Landru, Nicolas ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Teem Photonics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; Q SWITCHING; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

FIBER AMPLIFIED MICROCHIP LASER; FIXED PULSE DURATION; MULTIPLE OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS; REPETITION RATE;

LASERS;

EID: 34247269344     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011528     Document Type: Article

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