Polarisation maintaining 100W Yb-fiber MOPA producing μj pulses tunable in duration from 1 to 21 ps

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14385-14394

  Chen, Kang Kang ^a   Price, Jonathan H V ^a   Alam, Shaif Ul ^a   Hayes, John R ^a   Lin, Dejiao ^a   Malinowski, Andrew ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; POLARIZATION;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; DIODE PUMP POWER; GRATING COMPRESSORS; PULSE DURATIONS; REPETITION RATE; VISIBLE LASERS; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 84886947846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014385     Document Type: Article

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