Nanosecond vortex laser pulses with millijoule pulse energies from a Yb-doped double-clad fiber power amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14420-14425

  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; POWER AMPLIFIERS; VORTEX FLOW; YTTERBIUM;

COUPLING TECHNIQUES; MICRONEEDLES; MILLIJOULE PULSE; NOVEL MATERIALS; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP POWER; YB-DOPED DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79960530744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014420     Document Type: Article

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