Generation of 28-fs pulses from a mode-locked ytterbium fiber oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7055-7059

  Zhou, Xiangyu ^a   Yoshitomi, Dai ^b   Kobayashi, Yohei ^b   Torizuka, Kenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

FIBER LASER OSCILLATOR; GROUP-DELAY DISPERSION; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER;

LASER PULSES;

YTTERBIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 43849085330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007055     Document Type: Article

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