Passive harmonic mode locking of gain-guided solitons in erbium-doped fiber lasers

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 676-680

  Zhao, LuMing ^a   Tang, DingYuan ^a   Cheng, Tee Hiang ^a   Tam, Hwa Yaw ^b   Lu, Chao ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber laser; Gain guided soliton; Normal dispersion; Passive harmonic mode locking

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249083271     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0151-6     Document Type: Article

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