56-W frequency-doubled source at 530 nm pumped by a single-mode, single-polarization, picosecond, Yb3+-doped fiber MOPA

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 893-895

  Chen, Kang Kang ^a   Alam, Shaif Ul ^a   Hayes, John R ^a   Baker, Howard J ^b   Hall, Dennis ^b   Mc Bride, Roy ^c   Price, Jonathan H V ^a   Lin, Dejiao ^a   Malinowski, Andrew ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PowerPhotonic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Ultrafast optics and oscillators; Ytterbium (Yb)

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; DOPED FIBER; GREEN LIGHT; LITHIUM TRIBORATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL POWER; OUTPUT POWER; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PICOSECONDS; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE MODE; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND OSCILLATORS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LITHIUM; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POLARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77953098399     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2046633     Document Type: Article

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