Laser light condensate: Experimental demonstration of light-mode condensation in actively mode locked laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16520-16525

  Weill, Rafi ^a   Levit, Boris ^a   Bekker, Alexander ^a   Gat, Omri ^b   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FIBER LASERS;

ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS; CONDENSATION TRANSITION; EIGEN MODES; EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; LASER LIGHTS; LASER POWER; LASER SYSTEMS; LIGHT PULSE; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

APIALES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

APIACEAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955650042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016520     Document Type: Article

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