Self-steepening of prechirped amplified and compressed 29-fs fiber laser pulse in large-mode-area erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3597-3601

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a   Pan, Ci Ling ^b   Lin, Ying Tsung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Additive pulse mode locked (APM); Erbium doped fiber (EDF); Erbiumdoped fiber (EDF); Femtosecond fiber laser; Prechirped amplification; Self steepening effect; Soliton compression

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER PULSES; LINEWIDTH; SOLITONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ADDITIVE PULSE MODE-LOCKED (APM); ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASER; FIBER LASER PULSE; PRECHIRPED AMPLIFICATION; SELF-STEEPENING EFFECT; SOLITON COMPRESSION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 37249028705     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.907793     Document Type: Article

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