980-nm picosecond fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1519-1521

  Okhotnikov, O G ^a   Gomes, L A ^a   Xiang, N ^a   Jouhti, T ^a   Chin, A K ^b   Singh, R ^c   Grudinin, A B ^d  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Axcel Photonics Inc   (United States)

^c MKEPAI   (United States)

^d Fianium New Optics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; Mode locked lasers; Quantum wells; Semiconductor devices; Short pulse generation

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER MODE LOCKING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; YTTERBIUM;

GRATING-PAIR DISPERSIVE DELAY LINE; PICOSECOND FIBER LASER; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE-ABSORBER MIRROR; SHORT PULSE GENERATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0242334134     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818645     Document Type: Article

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