Generation of optical pulses as short as 27 femtoseconds directly from a laser balancing self-phase modulation, group-velocity dispersion, saturable absorption, and saturable gain

Optics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 131-133

  Fork, R L ^a   Gordon, J P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER; NONHUMAN; PHASE MODULATION; PULSED LASER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0021905587     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.10.000131     Document Type: Article

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