Passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber oscillator with a pulse energy of 4 nJ

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ruehl, Axel ^a   Engelbrecht, Martin ^a   Haxsen, Frithjof ^a   Wandt, Dieter ^a   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THULIUM;

ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE ENERGIES; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS; ULTRA-FAST;

PASSIVE MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84884304678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.mg3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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