Passive harmonic mode locking in soliton fiber lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 144-154

  Grudinin, A B ^a   Gray, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; MIRRORS; MODULATORS; PERFORMANCE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS;

CARRIER LIFETIME; NONLINEAR AMPLIFYING LOOP MIRROR; PASSIVE HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE MODULATORS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030736359     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.000144     Document Type: Article

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