Control of noiselike pulse generation in erbium-doped fiber lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1389-1391

  Horowitz, Moshe ^a   Silberberg, Yaron ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical bier lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical variables measurement; Pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS; NOISELIKE PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL BIER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032186739     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.720270     Document Type: Article

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