Simple repetition rate tunable picosecond pulse-generating 10 GHz laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 877-878

  Erny, Ch ^a   Spuhler G J ^a,b   Krainer, L ^a,b   Paschotta, R ^a   Weingarten, K J ^b   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GigaTera Inc   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVE (CW) LASERS; FIXED PHASE RELATION; GAUSSIAN PULSE SHAPE; GLASS LASERS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 3142676408     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040587     Document Type: Article

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