Hybrid Q-switched broadband laser source with low timing jitter

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1202-1212

  Bassri, Farid El ^a,b   Doutre, Florent ^a   Mothe, Nicolas ^a   Jaffres, Lionel ^a,c   Pagnoux, Dominique ^a   Couderc, Vincent ^a   Jalocha, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b Compagnie Industrielle des LASers ^*  (France)

^c Horus laser SAS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOMASKS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; TIMING JITTER;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC MODULATOR; BROADBAND LASERS; DUAL CAVITY; MICRO-STRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS; MICROCHIP LASERS; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE EMISSIONS; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SUBNANOSECOND; SUPERCONTINUUM; TEMPORAL JITTER;

Q SWITCHING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 84855948692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001202     Document Type: Article

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