Nonlinear coupling of relative intensity noise from pump to a fiber ring laser mode-locked with carbon nanotubes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16663-16670

  Wu, Kan ^a   Wong, Jia Haur ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Fu, Songnian ^a   Ouyang, Chunmei ^a   Wang, Honghai ^a   Kelleher, E J R ^b   Chernov, A I ^c   Obraztsova, E D ^c   Chen, Jianping ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; FIBER LASERS; LASERS; MODULATION; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; RING LASERS;

COUPLING RATIOS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FIBER-RING LASERS; GAIN MODULATION; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION POWER; NOISE POWER; NONLINEAR COUPLING; PUMP MODULATION; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SOURCE OF NOISE; SQUARE WAVES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955607645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016663     Document Type: Article

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