Gain-switched CW fiber laser for improved supercontinuum generation in a PCF

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 14883-14891

  Larsen, C ^a   Noordegraaf, D ^a,b   Skovgaard, P M W ^b   Hansen, K P ^b   Mattsson, K E ^a   Bang, O ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; CW FIBER LASERS; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; POWER SCALABILITY; REPETITION RATE; SUPER CONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 79961087810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014883     Document Type: Article

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