The unified theory of chirped-pulse oscillators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7354, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kalashnikov, Vladimir L ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse oscillator; Dissipative soliton; Nonlinear Ginzburg Landau equation; Positive dispersion regime

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; CHIRPED-PULSE; CHIRPED-PULSE OSCILLATOR; COMPLEX GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; DISSIPATIVE SOLITON; NONLINEAR GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; PARAMETRIC SPACES; POSITIVE-DISPERSION REGIME; UNIFIED THEORY;

DISPERSIONS; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SOLID STATE OSCILLATORS; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 69949149460     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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