Design guidelines of actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1103-1105

  Zhang, Xiupu ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kerr effect; Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical fibers; Optical solitons; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MACH-ZENDER AMPLITUDE MODULATOR; OPTICAL SOLITONS; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0032138502     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.701516     Document Type: Article

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