All Polarization-maintaining fiber Chirped-pulse amplification system for microjoule femtosecond pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7195, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhou, Shian ^a,b   Takamido, Tetsuji ^b   Bhandari, Rakesh ^b   Chong, Andy ^a   Wise, Frank ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b SUNX Limited   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear phase shift; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse amplifiers; Third order dispersion

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFIERS; THIRD ORDER DISPERSION;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 65649104057     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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