GaP waveguide emitters for high power broadband THz generation pumped by Yb-doped fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16308-16315

  Chang, Guoqing ^a   Divin, Charles J ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Musheinish, Malakeh A ^a   Williamson, Steven L ^b   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^a   Norris, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Picometrix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

GAP WAVEGUIDE EMITTERS; YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 37149025932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016308     Document Type: Article

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