On wave-breaking free fiber lasers mode-locked with two saturable absorber mechanisms

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8181-8189

  Ruehl, Axel ^a   Wandt, Dieter ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG REFLECTORS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

MODULATION DEPTH; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; PULSE SHAPER;

FIBER LASERS;

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

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

EID: 44649145857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008181     Document Type: Article

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