All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-152

  Mukhopadhyay, Pranab K ^a   Özgören, Kivanç ^a   Budunoilu, I Levent ^a   Ilday, F Ömer ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulse propagation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber lasers; Ultrafast optics; Yb doped fiber

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PULSE GENERATORS; SYSTEM STABILITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBER LASERS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; YB-DOPED FIBER;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 60049092647     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010261     Document Type: Article

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