Environmentally stable, high pulse energy Yb-Doped large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber laser operating in the soliton-like regime

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1088-1090

  Song, You Jian ^a   Hu, Ming Lie ^a   Wang, Chang Lei ^a   Tian, Zhen ^a   Xing, Qi Rong ^a   Chai, Lu ^a   Wang, Ching Yue ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Fiber oscillator; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Terahertz wave

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FS PULSE; GAIN MEDIUM; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; LINEAR CAVITY; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER (PCF); REPETITION RATE; SELF-STARTING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY; SOLITON-LIKE; TERAHERTZ SOURCES;

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 70349217913     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.924300     Document Type: Article

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