Comparison of an Yb-doped fiber and a semiconductor taper for amplification of picosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7212, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Riecke, Sina M ^a   Lauritsen, Kristian ^a   Thiem, Hendrick ^b   Paschke, Katrin ^b   Erdmann, Rainer ^a  

^a PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

DFB laser; Gain switching; Optical amplification; Picosecond pulses; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Semiconductor tapered amplifier; Yb doped fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

DFB LASER; GAIN-SWITCHING; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION; PICOSECOND PULSES; SEMICONDUCTOR TAPERED AMPLIFIER; YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; LASERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 65349132494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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