250-μJ broadband supercontinuum generated using a Q-switched tapered fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 380-382

  Kerttula, Juho ^a   Filippov, Valery ^a   Chamorovskii, Yuri ^b   Golant, Konstantin ^b   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Optical fiber lasers; Q switched lasers; supercontinuum generation; tapered double clad fiber

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE CLAD FIBERS; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; TAPERED FIBER;

FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79952607167     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2106490     Document Type: Article

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