Distributed nonlinear fiber chirped-pulse amplifier system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10835-10840

  Hanna, Marc ^a   Papadopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Druon, Frédéric ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SELF PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANALYTICAL DESIGN; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS; GAIN NARROWING; NON-LINEAR FIBER; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; REPETITION RATE; STRETCHING RATIOS; TEMPORAL QUALITY;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ION; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 67649246597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010835     Document Type: Article

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