Compact, stable 1 GHz femtosecond Er-doped fiber lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 5577-5582

  Byun, Hyunil ^a   Sander, Michelle Y ^a   Motamedi, Ali ^a   Shen, Hanfei ^a   Petrich, Gale S ^a   Kolodziejski, Leslie A ^a   Ippen, Erich P ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LONG TERM STABILITY; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE BRAGG REFLECTORS; THERMAL DAMAGE;

FIBERS;

EID: 78349233193     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005577     Document Type: Article

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