Fiber-based laser with tunable repetition rate, fixed pulse duration, and multiple wavelength output

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  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

Double clad fiber; Harmonic generation; Microlaser; Mid infrared; Mode filtering; Nd:YAG microchip laser; Nonlinear frequency conversion; Optical parametric generation; Ultraviolet; Yb doped fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; MICROLASERS; MODE FILTERING; ND:YAG MICROCHIP LASERS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATION; YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

BEAM QUALITY; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER TUNING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248357440     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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