High-energy ultrashort pulse generation from a fundamentally mode-locked fiber laser at 1.7 MHz

OFC/NFOEC 2007 - Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fong, Kok Hann ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a   Set, Sze Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YK Building 2F   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

LOW REPETITION RATE; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 39749176221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2007.4348784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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