Femtosecond neodymium-doped microstructure fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8671-8677

  Moenster, Mathias ^a   Glas, Peter ^a   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a   Iliew, Rumen ^b   Lebedev, Nikolay ^c   Wedell, Reiner ^c   Bretschneider, Mario ^d  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR KATALYSE E V AN DER UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d Institute for Scientific Instruments GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEODYMIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; FEMTOSECOND OPERATION; SATURABLE ABSORBABLE MIRROR;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 26844442014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008671     Document Type: Article

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