Supermode noise suppression in a harmonically modelocked fibre laser by selfphase modulation and spectral filtering

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 461-463

  Nakazawa, M ^a   Tamura, K ^a   Yoshida, E ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibre lasers; Noise

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; LASER MODE LOCKING; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS;

HARMONIC MODELOCKING TECHNIQUE; INLINE SOLITON CONTROL TECHNOLOGY; NOISE SUPPRESSION; SELFPHASE MODULATION; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030086135     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960318     Document Type: Article

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