Passive harmonically modelocked fiber soliton laser with repetition rate above 2 GHz

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-248

  Gray, S ^a   Grudinin, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030188189     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ofte.1996.0030     Document Type: Article

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