Limiting effects of four-wave mixing in high-power pulsed fiber amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

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

^a Teem Photonics   (France)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers; Fiber lasers; Four wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Polarization maintaining fibers; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

BAND AMPLIFIED PULSE ENERGY; HIGH POWER PULSED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIMITING EFFECT; TEMPORAL REGIME;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248331014     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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