Square nanosecond mode-locked Er-fiber laser synchronized to a picosecond Yb-fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4526-4532

  Li, Yao ^a   Gu, Xiaorong ^a   Yan, Ming ^a   Wu, E ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; PUMPING (LASER); YTTERBIUM;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; LASER PULSE DURATION; MAXIMUM PUMP POWER; NANOSECOND PULSE; PEAK INTENSITY; YB DOPED FIBER LASER; YB FIBER LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 62549112572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004526     Document Type: Article

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