Selfstarting passively mode-locked fibre ring soliton laser exploiting nonlinear polarisation rotation

Electronics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 1992, Pages 1391-1393

  Matsas, V J ^a   Newson, T P ^a   Richardson, D J ^a   Payne, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lasers; Optical fibres; Soliton transmission

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; RING LASERS;

FIBER RING LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLARIZATION ROTATION; SOLITONS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0026897516     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19920885     Document Type: Article

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