Tapered fiber bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in mode-locked yb-doped fiber laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 769-773

  Gumenyuk, Regina ^a   Thür, Christoph ^a   Kivistö, Samuli ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers; Mode locked lasers; Tapered fibers

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; LONG FIBER; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODELOCKING; PHASE MASKS; TAPER SHAPE; TAPERED FIBER; TAPERED FIBERS; UNIFORM PHASE; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASERS; SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77749322609     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2038723     Document Type: Article

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