Self-starting passively mode-locked chirped-pulse fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16794-16799

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

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

CHIRPED-PULSE REGIME; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; PULSE ENERGY SCALING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 37149027805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016794     Document Type: Article

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