Noise of the stretched pulse fiber laser: Part II - Experiments

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 660-668

  Yu, Charles X ^a,b,c,d   Namiki, Shu ^a   Haus, Hermann A ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Eta Kappa Nu ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Mode locked lasers; Optical fibers; Ultrafast optics; Ultrashort pulse generation

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; RING LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME MEASUREMENT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

JITTER; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031140227     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572139     Document Type: Article

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