Fourier-limited 19-ps Yb-fiber seeder stabilized by spectral filtering and tunable between 1015 and 1085 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 927-929

  Agnesi, Antoniangelo ^a   Carrà, Luca ^a   Di Marco, Carlo ^a   Piccoli, Riccardo ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; gratings; mode locked lasers; ytterbium

Indexed keywords

COUPLED SEMICONDUCTOR; LITTROW CONFIGURATION; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODELOCKING; NORMAL DISPERSION; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PICOSECONDS; PULSE DURATIONS; SPECTRAL FILTERING; YB-FIBER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84860501678     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2190893     Document Type: Article

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