Deep UV light generation by a fiber/bulk hybrid amplifier at 199nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1668-1674

  Urata, Yoshiharu ^a   Shinozaki, Tatsuya ^a   Wada, Yoshio ^a   Kaneda, Yushi ^a,b   Wada, Satoshi ^a   Imai, Shinichi ^c  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Advanced Mask Inspection Technology Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LIGHT SOURCES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; DEEP-ULTRAVIOLET REGIONS; FIBER MASTER-OSCILLATOR; HIGH PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; HYBRID AMPLIFIER; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; PULSED LIGHT SOURCE;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 65249151943     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001668     Document Type: Article

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