High peak power operation of a 100μm-core Yb-doped rod-type photonic crystal fiber amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Di Teodoro, Fabio ^a   Hemmat, Michael K ^a   Morais, Joseph ^a   Cheung, Eric C ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifier; PCF; Photonic crystal fiber; Pulse fiber laser

Indexed keywords

HIGH PEAK POWER; LINEAR POLARIZATION; PEAK POWER; PULSE FIBER LASER; SINGLE-MODE BEAMS; SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS;

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; YTTERBIUM;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77951781873     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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