Efficient green-light generation by frequency doubling of a picosecond all-fiber ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier in PPKTP waveguide inscribed by femtosecond laser direct writing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25183-25191

  Tu, Chenghou ^a   Huang, Zhangchao ^a   Lou, Kai ^a   Liu, Hongjun ^b   Wang, Yishan ^b   Li, Yongnan ^a   Lu, Fuyun ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^a,c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LIGHT; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TUNING; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

1064 NM; ALL FIBER; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; FUNDAMENTAL WAVELENGTH; GREEN LIGHT; GREEN-LIGHT GENERATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PICOSECOND RADIATION; PICOSECONDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE GRATING; TEMPERATURE TUNING RANGE; WAVEGUIDE CRYSTALS; WAVELENGTH TUNING; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 78649717910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025183     Document Type: Article

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