Properties and stability limits of an optimized mode-locked Yb-doped femtosecond fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2264-2279

  Abdelalim, Mohamed A ^a,c   Logvin, Yury ^a   Khalil, Diaa A ^b   Anis, Hanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^c Electronics Research Institute   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; STABILITY; YTTERBIUM;

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; LASER OSCILLATORS; NONLINEARITY COEFFICIENT; PULSE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE SPECTRUM; STABILITY LIMIT; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 60549087363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002264     Document Type: Article

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