High-gain Er-doped fiber amplifier generating eye-safe MW peak-power, mJ-energy pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2431-2437

  Desmoulins, Sebastien ^a   Di Teodoro, Fabio ^b  

^a ACULIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; WAVELENGTH;

MULTI-MODE OUTPUT BEAM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 39749122100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002431     Document Type: Article

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