Highly-stable monolithic femtosecond Yb-fiber laser system based on photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15475-15483

  Liu, Xiaomin ^a   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^a   Turchinovich, Dmitry ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; SYSTEM STABILITY; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS; ENERGY PULSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; FEMTOSECONDS; MECHANICAL DISTURBANCE; MODELOCKING; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NON-LINEARITY; OUTPUT POWER; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; Q-SWITCHED; RECOMPRESSION; SELF-STARTING; TEMPERATURE RANGE; YB FIBER LASERS; YB-FIBER;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77954948462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015475     Document Type: Article

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