Active harmonic modelocking of an erbium fiber laser with intracavity Fabry-Perot filters

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1171-1180

  Wey, Jun Shan ^a,b,c,d   Goldhar, Julius ^b,d,e,f   Burdge, Geoffrey L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; ETALONS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACTIVE HARMONIC MODELOCKING; ERBIUM FIBER LASER; INTRACAVITY FABRY-PEROT FILTERS; MODULATION FREQUENCY; OUTPUT PULSEWIDTH VARIATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031177649     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.596963     Document Type: Article

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