Optimised one-step compression of femtosecond fibre laser soliton pulses around 1550nm to below 30fs in highly nonlinear fibre

Electronics Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 915-916

  Kibler, B ^a   Fischer, R ^b   Lacourt, P A ^a   Courvoisier, F ^a   Ferriere, R ^a   Larger, L ^a   Neshev, D N ^b   Dudley, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL GATING; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE QUALITY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 34548009065     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20071726     Document Type: Article

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