High repetition rate mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser using dichroic fiber mirrors and photonic bandgap fiber technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6873, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Orsila, Lasse ^a   Herda, Robert ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Compact fiber laser; Dichroic mirror; Fiber lasers; High repetition rate; Photonic bandgap fiber; Thin film coating; Ultra fast optics; Ytterbium fiber laser

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; ENERGY GAP; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TECHNOLOGY; THIN FILMS;

(140.3500) LASERS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ALL FIBER; DICHROIC MIRROR (DM); DISPERSION COMPENSATORS; ELECTRON BEAM EVAPORATION (EBE); FIBER MIRRORS; HIGH REPETITION RATES; MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PHOTONIC-BAND GAP (PBG) FIBERS; SINGLE-MODE FIBER (SMF); THIN FILM COATINGS; YTTERBIUM FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44949120634     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.775198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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