Energy scaling of Yb fiber oscillator producing clusters of femtosecond pulses

Optical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Nie, Bai ^a   Parker, Greg ^a   Lozovoy, Vadim Vadimovich ^a   Dantus, Marcos ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SCALING; OUTPUT PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; SCALED-UP; YB-FIBER;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; PULSE CIRCUITS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84890102110     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.5.051505     Document Type: Article

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