Evolution and stability of pulse regimes in SESAM-mode-locked femtosecond fiber lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 346-352

  Shtyrina, Olga ^a   Fedoruk, Mikhail ^a   Turitsyn, Sergey ^b   Herda, Robert ^c   Okhotnikov, Oleg ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; PULSE REGIMES; RECOVERY TIME; SATURATION FLUENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE PULSE; SLOWLY OSCILLATING;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 60549087718     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000346     Document Type: Article

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