20 W high-power picosecond single-walled carbon nanotube based MOPA laser system

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2713-2717

  Zhang, Ling ^a   Wang, Yong Gang ^b   Yu, Hai Juan ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Yang, Ying Ying ^a   Han, Ze Hua ^a   Qu, Yan ^a   Hou, Wei ^a   Li, Jin Min ^a   Lin, Xue Chun ^a   Tsang, Yuen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; fiber amplifier; mode locking

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DIODE-LASER-PUMPED; HIGH-POWER; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; MASTER OSCILLATORS; MOPA LASER SYSTEM; OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PEAK POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

EID: 84864555862     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2205133     Document Type: Article

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