Lumped versus distributed description of mode-locked fiber lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2313-2321

  Zaviyalov, Alexandr ^a   Iliew, Rumen ^a   Egorov, Oleg ^a   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

CUBIC-QUINTIC GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; FIELD COMPONENTS; LASER PARAMETERS; LIMITING CASE; LUMPED MODELS; OPERATION REGIME; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78149398085     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002313     Document Type: Article

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