Short cavity erbium/ytterbium fiber lasers mode-locked with a saturable Bragg reflector

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1065-1074

  Collings, Brandon C ^a,d,e   Bergman, Keren ^a,d   Cundiff, S T ^b   Tsuda, Sergio ^b   Kutz, J Nathan ^a,b,d   Cunningham, J E ^b   Jan, W Y ^b   Koch, M ^c   Knox, W H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Quantum well devices; Rare earth materials devices; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

BRAGG REFLECTORS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031200532     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.649542     Document Type: Article

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