Low-noise, high-brightness, tunable source of picosecond pulsed light in the near-infrared and visible

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25337-25345

  Mosley, Peter J ^a   Bateman, Samuel A ^a   Lavoute, Laure ^a   Wadsworth, William J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INFRARED DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER);

HIGH BRIGHTNESS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PULSE AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TUNABLE DIODE LASERS; TUNABLE SOURCE; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PULSED LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIGHTING;

EID: 82955226280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025337     Document Type: Article

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