Four-wave mixing in nanosecond pulsed fiber amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4647-4662

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

^a Teem Photonics   (France)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

AMPLIFIED PULSE ENERGY; BIREFRINGENT FIBERS; SEED LASER POLARIZATION;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34247282093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004647     Document Type: Article

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