Mechanism of multisoliton formation and soliton energy quantization in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Tang, D Y ^a   Zhao, L M ^a   Zhao, B ^a   Liu, A Q ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEAK-POWER-LIMITING EFFECT; SOLITON ENERGY QUANTIZATION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 28844480106     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.043816     Document Type: Article

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