High power dissipative soliton laser using chirally-coupled core fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lefrançois, Simon ^a   Liu, Chi Hung ^b   Sosnowski, Thomas S ^b   Galvanauskas, Almantas ^c   Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b Arbor Photonics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber oscillators; Large mode area fibers; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

CAVITY DESIGN; DECHIRP; DECHIRPING; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; ENERGY SCALING; FIBER MODE; FUSION TECHNOLOGY; GLASS PACKAGES; HIGH-POWER; LARGE CORE; LARGE MODE AREA; LARGE MODE-AREA FIBERS; PULSE ENERGIES; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE; ULTRA-FAST;

AMPLIFICATION; DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLITONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79955837511     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.875243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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