Chirally-coupled-core Yb-fiber laser delivering 80-fs pulses with diffraction-limited beam quality warranted by a high-dispersion mirror based compressor

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24699-24705

  Chen, Hung Wen ^a   Sosnowski, Tom ^b   Liu, Chi Hung ^b   Chen, Li Jin ^a   Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^c   Kärtner, Franz X ^a   Chang, Guoqing ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b Arbor Photonics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; CHIRPED PULSE; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; FEMTOSECOND LASER SYSTEM; FS PULSE; HIGH ENERGY; MODE OPERATION; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; OPTICAL BEAMS; PULSE SHORTENING; RAPIDLY ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; YB FIBER LASERS; YB-FIBER;

MIRRORS;

EID: 78649702563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024699     Document Type: Article

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