High power picosecond vortex laser based on a large-mode-area fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14362-14366

  Tanaka, Yuichi ^a   Okida, Masahito ^a   Miyamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VORTEX FLOW; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

HIGH POWER; LARGE MODE AREA FIBER; LASER-BASED; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; PEAK POWER; PICOSECONDS; PUMP POWER; LARGE MODE AREA FIBRE; LASER AMPLIFIERS; PICOSECOND LASER; VORTEX MODE;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68349160692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014362     Document Type: Article

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