Stabilized pulse spacing in soliton lasers due to gain depletion and recovery

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1749-1757

  Kutz, J Nathan ^a,b   Collings, B C ^a   Bergman, K ^a   Knox, W H ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Solitons

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; SOLITONS;

INTERPULSE SPACING; MODE-LOCKED SOLITON LASERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032163680     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.709592     Document Type: Article

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