All-fiber passively mode-locked femtosecond laser using a 45°-tilted fiber grating polarization element

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18906-18911

  Mou, Chengbo ^a   Wang, Hua ^a,b   Bale, Brandon G ^a   Zhou, Kaiming ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ALL FIBER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; FS PULSE; IN-FIBER; LASER CAVITY; LASER OUTPUT; OUTPUT PULSE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; POLARIZATION ELEMENTS; POLARIZATION RESPONSE; TILTED FIBER GRATINGS; TILTED GRATING;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77956380097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018906     Document Type: Article

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