Mode-locked picosecond pulse generation from an octave-spanning supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20833-20839

  Kielpinski, D ^a   Pullen, M G ^a   Canning, J ^b   Stevenson, M ^b   Westbrook, P S ^c   Feder, K S ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

1550 NM; IN-FIBER; MODE-LOCKED; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE SYNTHESIS; SUPER CONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 70749124249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020833     Document Type: Article

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