1.38-μm mode-locked Raman fiber laser pumped by semiconductor disk laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23872-23877

  Chamorovskiy, A ^a   Rantamaki A ^a   Sirbu, A ^b   Mereuta, A ^b   Kapon, E ^b   Okhotnikov, O G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CONVENTIONAL SCHEMES; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; DISK LASERS; GAIN MATERIALS; HIGH-POWER; LOW NOISE; MODE-LOCKED; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; NORMAL DISPERSION; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RAMAN FIBER LASERS; RAMAN GAIN; RAMAN LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; WAVELENGTH CONVERTORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78149461245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023872     Document Type: Article

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