Locking of ultra-high peak pulses in harmonically mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Lam, Huy Quoc ^a,b   Binh, L N ^a   Ngo, John Q N ^b   Shum, Ping ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Supermode competition; Ultra high power mode locking

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; RING LASERS;

FIBER RING LASERS; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; SUPERMODE COMPETITION; ULTRA-HIGH PEAK PULSES; ULTRA-HIGH POWER MODE LOCKING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33747603491     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2148347     Document Type: Article

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