Scaling of passively mode-locked soliton erbium waveguide lasers based on slow saturable absorbers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 19221-19231

  Pudo, Dominik ^a   Byun, Hyunil ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Sickler, Jason ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a   Ippen, Erich P ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION ENGINEERING; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INTRACAVITIES; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTORS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149124078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019221     Document Type: Article

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