Supercontinuum generation with amplified 1.57μm picosecond semiconductor disk laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1010-1012

  Chamorovskiy, A ^a   Kerttula, J ^a   Rautiainen, J ^a   Okhotnikov, O G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; CO-DOPED; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT POWER; PICOSECONDS; PUMP SOURCES; REPETITION RATE; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SILICA FIBRES;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); GERMANIUM OXIDES; PUMPING (LASER); SILICA; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 84866848312     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2012.1359     Document Type: Article

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