Pulse duration and energy scaling of femtosecond all-normal dispersion fiber oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3844-3852

  Chichkov, Nikolai B ^a,b   Hapke, Christian ^a,b   Neumann, Jörg ^a,b   Kracht, Dietmar ^a,b   Wandt, Dieter ^a,b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,c  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

COMPRESSED PULSE; ENERGY SCALING; FEMTOSECONDS; FIBER LENGTH; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; SCALING DOWN; SCALING PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL FILTERS;

OPTICS;

EID: 84857301068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003844     Document Type: Article

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