Actively Q-switched fiber lasers: Switching dynamics and nonlinear processes

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 3-5, 2007, Pages 131-216

  Wang, Yong ^a   Xu, Chang Qing ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active Q switch; Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE); Fiber lasers; Laser dynamics; Optical nonlinearity; Spectral broadening; Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS); Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS)

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; Q SWITCHING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; SUPERRADIANCE;

ACTIVE Q SWITCH; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34547882430     PISSN: 00796727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pquantelec.2007.06.001     Document Type: Review

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