Dissipative soliton resonance as a guideline for high-energy pulse laser oscillators

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2336-2341

  Grelu, Philippe ^a   Chang, Wonkeun ^b,c   Ankiewicz, Adrian ^b   Soto Crespo, Jose M ^d   Akhmediev, Nail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; RESONANCE; SOLITONS;

CUBIC-QUINTIC GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; EQUATION PARAMETER; FIBER OSCILLATORS; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH ENERGY PULSE; HYPERSURFACE; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; ULTRA-HIGH;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 78149398339     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002336     Document Type: Article

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