High-energy wave-breaking-free pulse from all- Fiber mode-locked laser system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7222-7227

  Tian, Xiaolong ^a   Tang, Ming ^a   Cheng, Xueping ^a   Shum, Perry Ping ^a   Gong, Yandong ^b   Lin, Chinlon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASERS; LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

CAVITY LENGTH; LOW REPETITION RATE; MASTER OSCILLATORS; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; WAVE BREAKING-FREE PULSE; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 66549100143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007222     Document Type: Article

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