Colliding-pulse passive harmonic mode-locking in a femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3872-3877

  Deng, Y ^a   Koch, M W ^a   Lu, F ^a   Wicks, G W ^a   Knox, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER OPTICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

AMPLITUDE MODULATORS; FIBER OPTICS AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS; PICOSECOND PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4644333159     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003872     Document Type: Article

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