Highly stable 68-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse Yb3+ -doped fiber laser with frequency shifted feedback

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1674-1676

  Lefort, L ^a   Albert, A ^a   Couderc, V ^a   Barthelemy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber lasers; Pulse generation; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

FREQUENCY SHIFTED FEEDBACK;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0036896996     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.804678     Document Type: Article

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