Generation of sub-100-fs pulses at up to 200 MHz repetition rate from a passively mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2716-2721

  Ilday, F O ^a   Chen, J ^a   Kartner F X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROMACHINING; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; PASSIVE HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; PICOSECOND PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 21244483117     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002716     Document Type: Article

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