Compensation of gain narrowing by self-phase modulation in high-energy ultrafast fiber chirped-pulse amplifiers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 182-186

  Papadopoulos, Dimitrios N ^a   Hanna, Marc ^a   Druon, Frédéric ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA); Pulse compression; Ultrafast fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE COMPRESSION; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); ENGINEERING RULES; FEMTOSECOND; FIBER CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFIERS; FS PULSE; GAIN NARROWING; HIGH ENERGIES; HIGH GAINS; HIGH-ENERGY PULSE; OUTPUT ENERGIES; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; PULSE DURATIONS; SELF-PHASE MODULATIONS; ULTRAFAST FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 60049088431     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010271     Document Type: Article

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