A saturable absorber Q-switched all-fiber ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1429-1434

  Tsai, Tzong Yow ^a   Fang, Yen Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RING LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; RATE EQUATIONS; SWITCHING MODEL;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 59749104697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001429     Document Type: Article

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