Self-starting of feedback control in lasers with a tendency to Q-switch

Optics Communications

Volumn 220, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 171-177

  Joly, Nicolas ^a   Bielawski, Serge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Laser instabilities; Mode locking; Q switch

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FEEDBACK; LASER MODE LOCKING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; Q SWITCHING;

LASER INSTABILITIES;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0038033047     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01347-6     Document Type: Article

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