Bound solitons with 103-fs pulse width and 585.5-fs separation from DI-NOLM figure-8 fiber laser

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 163-164

  Gong, Y D ^a   Shum, P ^b   Tang, D Y ^b   Lu, C ^a   Cheng, T H ^a   Qi, Z W ^b   Guan, Y L ^b   Lai, W J ^b   Man, W S ^b   Tam, H Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; Optical fiber; Optical pulse generation; Optical soliton

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION FIBER; DISPERSION IMBALANCED NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL SOLITON; ULTRASHORT BOUND SOLITON PULSE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0141637242     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.11157     Document Type: Article

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