High repetition rate gigawatt peak power fiber laser systems: Challenges, design, and experiment

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-169

  Limpert, Jens ^a   Röser, Fabian ^a   Schimpf, Damian N ^a   Seise, Enrico ^a   Eidam, Tino ^a   Ḧdrich, Steffen ^a   Rothhardt, Jan ^a   Misas, César Jauregui ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA); Fiber laser and amplifiers; Microstructured fibers; Nonlinear fiber optics; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TEXTILE FIBERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); FIBER LASER AND AMPLIFIERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

AMPLIFIERS; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; POWER; RARE EARTHS; TEXTILE FIBERS;

EID: 60049086087     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010244     Document Type: Article

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