Mechanisms of generation of multi-peak and mode-locked resembling pulses in Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11576-11588

  Upadhyaya, B N ^a   Chakravarty, Usha ^a   Kuruvilla, A ^a   Thyagarajan, K ^b   Shenoy, M R ^b   Oak, S M ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; DIFFRACTION; LASER MODE LOCKING; Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CAVITY MIRROR POSITION; MODULATION FREQUENCY; PUMP POWER; SBS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34548384217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011576     Document Type: Article

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