Octave-spanning ultrafast OPO with 2.6-6.1μm instantaneous bandwidth pumped by femtosecond Tm-fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7046-7053

  Leindecker, Nick ^a   Marandi, Alireza ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^a   Jiang, Jie ^b   Hartl, Ingmar ^b   Fermann, Martin ^b   Schunemann, Peter G ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; THULIUM;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; BROADBAND GAIN; FEMTOSECONDS; GAAS; GROUP DISPERSIONS; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; KEY FACTORS; MIDINFRARED; MOLECULAR SPECIES; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT SPECTRUM; PUMP THRESHOLD; ULTRA-FAST;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 84859402720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007046     Document Type: Article

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