Experimental and numerical study of pulse dynamics in positive net-cavity dispersion mode-locked Yb-doped fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15595-15602

  Ortac B ^a   Plotner M ^a   Schreiber, T ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Tunnermann A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; ENERGY GAP; MIRRORS; PHOTONICS; YTTERBIUM;

COMPACT LINEAR CAVITY; NONLINEAR MODE-LOCKING MECHANISM; PULSE DYNAMICS; STRETCHED-PULSE REGIME;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 36249026587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015595     Document Type: Article

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