All-fiber based amplification of 40 ps pulses from a gain-switched laser diode

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1854-1859

  Kanzelmeyer, Sebastian ^a   Sayinc, Hakan ^a   Theeg, Thomas ^a   Frede, Maik ^a   Neumann, Joerg ^a   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIODES; FIBER LASERS;

ALL FIBER; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; GAIN-SWITCHED LASER DIODES; INTRAPULSE RAMAN SCATTERING; LASER SYSTEMS; PEAK POWER; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; TIME DOMAIN;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79851495731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001854     Document Type: Article

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