Increasing energy in an ytterbium femtosecond fiber laser with a longer gain medium and lower doping

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8237, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bock, Katherine J ^a   Kotb, Hussein E ^a   Abdelalim, Mohamed A ^b   Anis, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ELECTRONICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

femtosecond fiber laser; long ytterbium gain fiber; low doped ytterbium gain fiber; mode locking; self similar pulse; similariton pulse; Yb doped fiber laser

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; GAIN FIBERS; MODELOCKING; SELF-SIMILAR; SIMILARITON PULSE; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84859643243     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.908886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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