Low jitter Q-switched fiber laser using optically driven surface-normal saturable absorber modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8720-8726

  Hakulinen, Tommi ^a   Koskinen, Riku ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; OPTICAL TRIGGERING; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASERS; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR MODULATORS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 45249087211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008720     Document Type: Article

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