Experimental investigation of a passively mode-locked fiber laser based on a symmetrical NOLM with a highly twisted low-birefringence fiber

Laser Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 914-919

  Ibarra Escamilla, B ^a   Pottiez, O ^b   Kuzin, E A ^a   Grajales Coutino R ^a   Haus, J W ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLARIZATION; POWER GENERATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

BIREFRINGENCE FIBERS; COUNTERPROPAGATING BEAMS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INPUT POWERS; LINEAR (LP) POLARIZATION; MODE LOCKED LASER (MLL); MODE-LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR (NOLM); OUTPUT POWERS; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PICO SECOND PULSES; POLARIZATION ASYMMETRY; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY (PRF); SELF-STARTING; STABLE OPERATIONS; TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 47249127718     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: 15556611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X08070177     Document Type: Article

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