Passively mode-locked single-polarization microstructure fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2122-2128

  Ortac B ^a   Lecaplain, C ^a,c   Hideur, A ^a,c   Schreiber, T ^b   Limpert, J ^a   Tunnermann A ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

ABSORBER MIRRORS; CRYSTAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 39049130091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002122     Document Type: Article

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