Amplification of kW peak power femtosecond pulses in single quantum well InGaAs tapered amplifiers

Optics Communications

Volumn 281, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2160-2166

  Ulm, Thorsten ^a   Fuchs, Harry ^a   L'huillier, Johannes A ^a   Klehr, Andreas ^b   Sumpf, Bernd ^b   Gehrig, Edeltraud ^c  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diode lasers; Femtosecond lasers; Intraband relaxation; Self phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor optics; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; RELAXATION TIME; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

INTRABAND RELAXATION; SELF-PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 39649106884     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2007.11.062     Document Type: Article

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