Compact fully fibre integrated source of 100 fs pulses at 1.1 μm based on compression in holey fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 234-235

  Kennedy, R E ^a   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

HOLEY FIBERS; PULSE SOURCES; SOLITON FORMATION; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 15544362545     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20047767     Document Type: Article

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