High SBS-threshold, narrowband, erbium codoped with ytterbium fiber amplifier pulses frequency-doubled to 770 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14389-14395

  Dilley, C E ^a   Stephen, M A ^b   Savage Leuchs, M P ^a  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL GAIN; YTTERBIUM;

FREE PEAK POWER; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE; REPETITION RATE;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 35948975233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014389     Document Type: Article

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