Melting and freezing of light pulses and modes in mode-locked lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 3418-3424

  Gordon, Ariel ^a   Vodonos, Boris ^a   Smulakovski, Vladimir ^a   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MELTING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NONLINEAR ROTATION; QUARTIC ORDER PARAMETERS; RADIO FREQUENCY;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 2942720562     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003418     Document Type: Article

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