Stable operation of mode-locked fiber lasers: Similariton regime

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 11033-11041

  Bélanger, Pierre André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER MODE LOCKING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLITONS;

GINZBURG-LANDAU DISTRIBUTED MODELS; STABLE OPERATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34548056213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011033     Document Type: Article

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