All thulium fiber single-mode master oscillator power amplifier delivering 32-nJ picosecond pulses

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8237, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Renard, William ^a   Canat, Guillaume ^a   Bourdon, Pierre ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers; Mode locked fiber lasers; Soliton; Thulium; Ultrashort pulses

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; AMPLIFIED PULSE; HIGH PEAK POWER; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE PEAK POWER; SINGLE MODE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS; THULIUM; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FIBERS;

EID: 84859634327     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.907924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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