High-energy soliton pulse generation with a passively mode-locked Er/Yb-doped multifilament-core fiber laser

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-31

  Ortac B ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Jetschke, S ^b   Unger, S ^b   Reichel, V ^b   Kirchhof, J ^b   Tunnermann A ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; EYE-SAFE; HIGH ENERGY; MODE-LOCKED; MULTI-FILAMENT; NON-LINEARITY; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT PULSE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PEAK POWER; POWER AND ENERGY SCALING; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE GENERATION; PULSE REPETITION RATES; SELF-STARTING; SHORT PULSE; SHORT-PULSE LASERS;

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SOLITONS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 71249131927     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-009-3727-1     Document Type: Article

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