Pulse-compression down to 20 fs using a photonic crystal fiber seeded by a diode-pumped Yb:SYS laser at 1070 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3383-3396

  Druon, Frédéric ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a  

^a INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROMACHINING; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES (PCF); PULSE COMPRESSION; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 4644364515     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003383     Document Type: Article

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