Direct generation of subpicosecond chirp-free pulses at 10 GHz from a nonpolarization maintaining actively mode-locked fiber ring laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1150-1152

  Li, Jie ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^a   Bakhshi, Bamdad ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER RING LASERS; AUTOCORRELATION METHODS; CHIRP-FREE SUBPICOSECOND PULSES; NONPOLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBER RING LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0034266704     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.874218     Document Type: Article

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