Hybrid Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9364-9370

  Huang, J Y ^a   Zhuang, W Z ^a   Huang, W C ^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

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; TIMING JITTER; YTTERBIUM;

ACOUSTO-OPTICS; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; ALGAINAS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE PERIOD; PUMP POWER; Q-SWITCHED; Q-SWITCHES; REPETITION RATE; RF-POWER; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 79955792315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009364     Document Type: Article

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