Steady and oscillating multiple dissipative solitons in normal-dispersion mode-locked Yb- doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 13128-13139

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^c Electronics Research Institute   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); YTTERBIUM;

DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; NORMAL DISPERSION; SINGLE SOLITON; SOLITON COMPLEXES; SOLITON PAIRS; SPECTRAL PROFILE; YB DOPED FIBER LASER;

SOLITONS;

EID: 67749137417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013128     Document Type: Article

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