Wavelength-Tunable Short-Pulse Diode-Laser Fiber-Amplifier System Around 1.06 μm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 838-840

  Adhimoolam, Balaji ^b   Groß, Petra ^b   Lindsay, Ian D ^b   Boller, Klaus Jochen ^b  

^a Bronkhorst High Tech BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diode laser; laser tuning; mode locking; semiconductor laser; ultrashort pulses; Yb fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008045023     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871820     Document Type: Article

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