Third-order dispersion impact on mode-locking regimes of Yb-doped fiber laser with photonic bandgap fiber for dispersion compensation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 985-991

  Logvin, Yury ^a   Kalosha, V P ^a   Anis, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY GAP; FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

RESONANT INTERACTION; THIRD ORDER DISPERSION; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33846865356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000985     Document Type: Article

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