Intracavity pulse dynamics and stability for passively mode-locked lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5919-5924

  Antonelli, Cristian ^a   Chen, Jeff ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES;

INTRACAVITY PULSE DYNAMICS; LASER DYNAMICS; SIMILARITON LASERS; STRETCHED PULSES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 34248553832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005919     Document Type: Article

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