Formation of repetitively nanosecond spatial solitons in a saturable absorber Q-switched laser

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Chen, Y F ^a   Lan, Y P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIFFRACTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RESONATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLITONS;

MICROCHIP LASERS; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; NANOSECOND SPATIAL SOLITONS;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 3442879227     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.013901     Document Type: Article

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