Normal dispersive ultrafast fiber oscillators

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 170-181

  Ruehl, Axel ^a,b   Wandt, Dieter ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^c   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser tuning; Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber; Optical pulse generation; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FIBERS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TUNING;

DISPERSION SLOPES; DISSIPATIVE EFFECTS; FEMTOSECOND; HIGH PULSE ENERGIES; INTRA CAVITIES; KEY FEATURES; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; MODE-LOCKING; NORMAL DISPERSIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL FIBER; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE FORMATIONS; ULTRA FASTS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 60049089546     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010243     Document Type: Article

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