High power, single mode, all-fiber source of femtosecond pulses at 1550 nm and its use in supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3025-3034

  Nicholson, J W ^a   Yablon, A D ^a   Westbrook, P S ^a   Feder, K S ^a   Yan, M F ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERBIUM; LASER MODE LOCKING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBRE LASERS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (HNLF); SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 4644235215     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003025     Document Type: Article

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