High performance ultrafast fiber laser systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5335, Issue , 2004, Pages 245-252

  Limpert, J ^a   Liem, A ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Reich, M ^a   Zellmer, H ^a   Tunnermann A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Fiber design; Fiber lasers and amplifiers; Nonlinear fiber optics; Photonic crystal fibers; Power and energy scaling; Ultrashort laser pulses; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FIBER DESIGNS; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POWER AND ENERGY SCALING;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4344579708     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.538774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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