Compact tunable high power picosecond source based on Yb-doped fiber amplification of gain switch laser diode

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7888-7893

  Liu, Hongjun ^a   Gao, Cunxiao ^a   Tao, Jintao ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Wang, Yishan ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; BROAD-BAND SPECTRUM; CENTER WAVELENGTH; MAIN AMPLIFIERS; REPETITION RATE; TUNABLE FILTERS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

AMPLIFICATION;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 44649176319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007888     Document Type: Article

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