Integrated low-jitter 400-MHz femtosecond waveguide laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 763-765

  Byun, Hyunil ^a   Pudo, Dominik ^a   Frolov, Sergey ^b   Hanjani, Amir ^b   Shmulovich, Joseph ^b   Ippen, Erich P ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b CyOptics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium waveguide; Femtosecond pulse; High repetition rate; Integrated laser; Low jitter; Soliton mode locking

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND PULSE; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INTEGRATED LASER; LOW JITTERS; MODELOCKING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ERBIUM; JITTER; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; SOLID STATE LASERS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 77955078918     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2017505     Document Type: Article

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