High SBS-threshold single-mode single-frequency monolithic pulsed fiber laser in the C-band

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8237-8245

  Shi, Wei ^a   Petersen, Eliot B ^a,b   Leigh, Matthew ^a,c   Zong, Jie ^a   Yao, Zhidong ^a   ArturoChavez Pirson, ^a   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a,c  

^a NP PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

MASTER OSCILLATORS; PHOSPHATE GLASS FIBERS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; PULSED FIBER LASERS; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SINGLE-MODE SINGLE FREQUENCY;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 66549117079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008237     Document Type: Article

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