Laser dynamics of a 10 GHz 0.55 ps asynchronously harmonic modelocked Er-doped fiber soliton laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 292-299

  Hsiang, Wei Wei ^a   Chang, Hon Chieh ^b   Lai, Yinchieh ^a,c  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asynchronous soliton modelocking; Fiber lasers; Modelocked lasers; Ultrashort optics

Indexed keywords

CENTER WAVELENGTH; ER-DOPED FIBERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LASER DYNAMICS; LASER OUTPUT; MASTER EQUATIONS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKING FIBER LASER; MODELOCKED LASERS; MODELOCKING; NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; PERIODIC VARIATION; PULSE DYNAMICS; PULSE PARAMETER; PULSE TIMING; RF-SPECTRUM; SINUSOIDAL VARIATIONS; SOLITON LASER; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; ULTRASHORT OPTICS; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; SOLITONS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 75149133679     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2032559     Document Type: Article

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