Stretched-pulse operation of a thulium-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20471-20476

  Haxsen, Frithjof ^a,b   Ruehl, Axel ^a   Engelbrecht, Martin ^a,b   Wandt, Dieter ^a,b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,c   Kracht, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS;

A-CENTER; STRETCHED-PULSE OPERATION; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS;

THULIUM;

GLASS FIBER; THULIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THULIUM;

EID: 57349095281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020471     Document Type: Article

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