Millijoule-level Yb-doped photonic crystal fiber laser passively Q-switched with AlGaInAs quantum wells

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27910-27915

  Zhuang, W Z ^a   Huang, W C ^a   Chiang, P Y ^a   Su, K W ^a   Huang, K F ^a   Chen, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; YTTERBIUM;

ALGAINAS; AVERAGE POWER; MAXIMUM PEAKS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP POWER; QUANTUM WELL; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTON;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; PHOTONS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 78650531720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027910     Document Type: Article

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