Experimental verification of soliton-like pulseshaping mechanisms in passively mode-locked VECSELs

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10143-10153

  Hoffmann, Martin ^a   Sieber, Oliver D ^a   Maas, Deran J H C ^a   Wittwer, Valentin J ^a   Golling, Matthias ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; PHASE SHIFT; SOLITONS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE FORMATION; PULSE-SHAPING; SOLITON-LIKE; ULTRA-FAST;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952719962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010143     Document Type: Article

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