High peak power and high energy fiber amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6453, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Minelly, John ^a   Di Teodoro, Fabio ^a   Savage Leuchs, Matthias ^a   Alterman, Deborah ^a   Brooks, Sebastian Desmoulins Christopher ^a   Eisenberg, Eric ^a  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; GAS SENSING; LASER RADARS; SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING;

OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248400473     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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