Multimode instability in ring fiber lasers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2517-2528

  Pessina, E M ^a   Prati, F ^b,c   Redondo, J ^d   Roldán, Eugenio ^e   de Valcarcel G J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; RING LASERS;

ISOMORPHISM; RISKEN-NUMMEDAL-GRAHAM-HAKEN (RNGH) INSTABILITY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032614076     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.2517     Document Type: Article

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