Dual locking modes in a weakly birefringent ring active mode locked fiber laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6351 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lam, Huy Quoc ^a,c   Shum, P ^a   Binh, Le Nguyen ^b   Gong, Y D ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Dual modes; Fiber laser; Laser; Mode lock; Polarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

BIREFRINGENCE CAVITY; MODE LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33845651314     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.687599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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