Experimental investigation of the dynamics of a stabilized nonlinear fiber ring resonator

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2283-2293

  Coen, S ^a   Haelterman, M ^a   Emplit, Ph ^a   Delage, L ^b   Simohamed, L M ^b   Reynaud, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Inst Rech Commun Optiques M   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR FIBER RESONATOR; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL ISOLATOR; OPTICAL PATH SERVOCONTROL SYSTEMS;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

EID: 0032219257     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.002283     Document Type: Article

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