Simultaneous direct amplification and compression of picosecond pulses to 65-kW peak power without pulse break-up in erbium fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17494-17501

  Jasapara, J C ^a   Andrejco, M J ^a   Nicholson, J W ^a   Yablon, A D ^a   Varallyay Z ^b  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology Hungary   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVELENGTH;

ENERGY PULSES; FIBER DISPERSION; PICOSECOND PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

ERBIUM; GLASS FIBER;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERBIUM; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549023515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017494     Document Type: Article

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