Fiber lasers and amplifiers: An ultrafast performance evolution

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 25, 2010, Pages

  Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b   Schreiber, Thomas ^a,b   Limpert, Jens ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; RARE EARTH-DOPED FIBERS;

DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS; LOW POWER; PERFORMANCE EVOLUTIONS; PULSE OPERATION; ULTRA-FAST;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77957656286     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000F71     Document Type: Article

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