Picosecond fiber MOPA pumped supercontinuum source with 39 W output power

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5426-5432

  Chen, Kang Kang ^a   Alam, Shaif Ul ^a   Price, Jonathan H V ^a   Hayes, John R ^a   Lin, Dejiao ^a   Malinowski, Andrew ^a   Codemard, Christophe ^a   Ghosh, Debashri ^b   Pal, Mrinmay ^b   Bhadra, Shyamal K ^b   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; INPUT PULSE; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PEAK POWER DENSITIES; PICOSECONDS; POWER DENSITIES; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; VISIBLE CONTINUUM; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS;

FIBER LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 77949644414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005426     Document Type: Article

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