Novel method to simultaneously compress pulses and suppress supermode noise in actively mode-locked fiber ring laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1250-1252

  Yuhua, Li ^a   Caiyun, Lou ^a   Jian, Wu ^a   Boyu, Wu ^a   Yizhi, Gao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL ROTATION; RING LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; SUPERMODE NOISE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032163462     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.705606     Document Type: Article

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