All-fiber picosecond laser system at 1.5 μm based on amplification in short and heavily doped phosphate-glass fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2194-2196

  Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Polynkin, Alexander ^a   Panasenko, Dmitriy ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Mode locked lasers; Solitons

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; GLASS FIBERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

MULTINANOJOULE PULSES; PHOSPHATE-GLASS ACTIVE FIBER; PULSE DISTORTION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33750077556     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.884242     Document Type: Article

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