Suppression of Q-switch instabilities by feedback control in passively mode-locked lasers

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 692-694

  Joly, Nicolas ^a   Bielawski, Serge ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0038211225     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000692     Document Type: Article

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