Noise-like pulse in a gain-guided soliton fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2145-2150

  Zhao, L M ^a   Tang, D Y ^a   Wu, J ^a   Fu, X Q ^b   Wen, S C ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT EMISSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; SOLITONS;

GAIN GUIDED SOLITON FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; POSITIVE DISPERSION FIBERS; PULSE EMISSION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33847761423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002145     Document Type: Article

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