High power femtosecond source near 1 micron based on an all-fiber Er-doped mode-locked laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21350-21355

  Kieu, K ^a   Jones, R J ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER);

ALL FIBER; AVERAGE POWER; ER-DOPED; FEMTOSECONDS; FS PULSE; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-POWER FEMTOSECOND LASER; LASER SYSTEMS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77957976505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021350     Document Type: Article

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