Pulse dynamics of a passively mode-locked Bi-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1041-1048

  Kivisto, Samuli ^a   Puustinen, Janne ^a   Guina, Mircea ^a   Herda, Robert ^b   Marcinkevicius, Saulius ^c   Dianov, Evgueny M ^d   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLITONS;

ABSORPTION RECOVERY; BI-DOPED; FIBER LASER CAVITY; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE DYNAMICS; PULSE EVOLUTION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SHORT PULSE GENERATION; START-UPS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

BISMUTH;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BISMUTH; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 75249089015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001041     Document Type: Article

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