Generation of double-scale femto/pico-second optical lumps in mode-locked fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20707-20713

  Kobtsev, Sergey ^a   Kukarin, Sergey ^a   Smirnov, Sergey ^a   Turitsyn, Sergey ^b   Latkin, Anton ^a  

^a NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DINGER EQUATION; DOUBLE-SCALE; LASER SWITCHING; NONLINEAR POLARIZATIONS; OPERATION REGIME; PULSE GENERATION; YB DOPED FIBER LASER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 70749085955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020707     Document Type: Article

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