Mode-locked Bi-doped all-fiber laser with chirped fiber Bragg grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 599-601

  Kivistö, Samuli ^a   Gumenyuk, Regina ^a   Puustinen, Janne ^a   Guina, Mircea ^a   Dianov, Evgeny M ^b   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bismuth; Fiber Bragg gratings; Fiber lasers; Mode locked lasers

Indexed keywords

ALL-FIBER LASERS; ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BI-DOPED; CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING; FIBER GRATINGS; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; INGAASN; LINEARLY CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; OUTPUT PULSE; PULSE REGIMES; REPETITION RATE; SELF-STARTING; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; SHORT OPTICAL PULSE;

BISMUTH; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LASERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLITONS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77955075020     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2015277     Document Type: Article

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