Passively Q-switched photonic crystal fiber laser and intracavity optical parametric oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8969-8975

  Zhuang, W Z ^a   Huang, W C ^a   Huang, Y P ^a   Su, K W ^a   Chen, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING;

INTRACAVITIES; OUTPUT PULSE; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE WIDTH; PUMP POWER; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SHORT PULSE WIDTH; SIGNAL WAVES; YAG;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77952039716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008969     Document Type: Article

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