Origin of the bound states of pulses in the stretched-pulse fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 405-418

  Olivier, Michel ^a   Piché, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION;

COMBINED EFFECT; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; LINEAR CHIRP; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR GAINS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PULSE FIBER LASER; PULSEWIDTHS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 58449111542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000405     Document Type: Article

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