Generation of 1.2ps, 10 GHz pulse train from all-optically modelocked, erbium fibre ring laser with active nonlinear polarisation rotation

Electronics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 1994, Pages 1764-1765

  Greer, E J ^a   Kimura, Y ^b   Suzuki, K ^b   Yoshida, E ^b   Nakazawa, M ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibre lasers; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Ring lasers

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; RING LASERS;

ACTIVE NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; PULSE TRAIN;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0028530002     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19941215     Document Type: Article

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