High power red and near-IR generation using four wave mixing in all integrated fibre laser systems

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16193-16205

  Lavoute, Laure ^a   Knight, Jonathan C ^a   Dupriez, Pascal ^b   Wadsworth, William J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

1064 NM; FIBRE LASERS; FIBRE LENGTH; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-POWER GENERATION; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; NEAR-IR; NEAR-IR LIGHT; PARAMETER SPACES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL WAVELENGTH; SINGLE PASS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77954941828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016193     Document Type: Article

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