Mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser with external compression to 89 fs in normal dispersion fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1182-1186

  Herda, Robert ^a,b   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE; FIBER SOURCES; HIGH-QUALITY PULSE; NORMAL DISPERSION; OUTPUT FIBERS; PULSE PROPAGATION; YB DOPED FIBER LASER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 49249099090     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001182     Document Type: Article

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