Mode-locked Nd-doped microstructured fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4523-4528

  Moenster, Mathias ^a   Glas, Peter ^a   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a   Iliew, Rumen ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER MODE LOCKING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; PULSE DURATION; PULSE ENERGY; PULSE FORMATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 6344280897     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004523     Document Type: Article

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