Broadband tunable optical parametric amplification from a single 50 MHz ultrafast fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7304-7309

  Tzeng, Yan Wei ^a,d   Lin, Yen Yin ^b   Huang, Chen Han ^a,c   Liu, Jian Ming ^a   Chui, Hsiang Chen ^c   Liu, Hsiang Lin ^d   Stone, James M ^e   Knight, Jonathan C ^e   Chu, Shi Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER); TIMING JITTER;

FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; REPETITION RATE; SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATION; ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66549128839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007304     Document Type: Article

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