Coherent addition of fiber-amplified ultrashort laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27827-27835

  Seise, Enrico ^a,c   Klenke, Arno ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a,b,c   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; POLARIZATION; PULSE GENERATORS;

AMPLIFICATION SCHEME; COHERENT ADDITION; COHERENT COMBINATION; COMBINING EFFICIENCY; ERROR SIGNAL; FEMTOSECONDS; GAIN MEDIUM; LINEAR POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION STATE; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE MODE; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-SHORT LASER PULSE; ULTRAFAST LASER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS;

EID: 78650553970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027827     Document Type: Article

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