High power and high energy ultrashort pulse generation with a frequency shifted feedback fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15892-15897

  Heidt, A M ^a   Burger, J P ^a   Maran, J N ^a   Traynor, N ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b PERFOS Plate forme d 'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Fibres Optiques Spéciales   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; PULSE COMPRESSION;

FEEDBACK FIBER LASER; PULSE ENERGY; Q-SWITCHED MODELOCKING; SUBPICOSECOND PULSES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36749098389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015892     Document Type: Article

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