Power scaling of a picosecond vortex laser based on a stressed Yb-doped fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 994-999

  Koyama, Mio ^a   Hirose, Tetsuya ^a   Okida, Masahito ^a   Miyamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PICOSECONDS; POWER-SCALING; SECOND-HARMONIC; YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

VORTEX FLOW;

YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 78751477736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000994     Document Type: Article

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