Observation of high-contrast, fast intensity noise of a continuous wave Raman fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16444-16449

  Schröder, Jochen ^a,b   Coen, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE RAMAN FIBER LASERS; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; INTENSITY NOISE; LOW REPETITION RATE; NOISE TRANSFER; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RAMAN AMPLIFIER;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 70349209075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016444     Document Type: Article

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