Passive harmonically mode-locked Yb3+-doped fiber laser free from anomalous dispersion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 1726-1728

  Liu, Dongfeng ^a   Zhu, Xiaojun ^a   Wang, Chinhua ^a   Yu, Jianjun ^a   Zhang, Guiju ^a   Fang, Erxi ^a   Wang, Jiajun ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; long period fiber grating; mode locked laser; ultrafast laser

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BAND PASS FILTERING; CASCADED LONG-PERIOD FIBER GRATINGS; DOPED FIBER; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FIBER-OPTICS AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS; HIGHLY CHIRPED PULSE; LONG PERIOD FIBER GRATING; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; NORMAL DISPERSION; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE-SHAPING; REPETITION RATE; ULTRAFAST LASER; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSIONS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; YTTERBIUM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78449289030     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2076276     Document Type: Article

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