Dark solitons in mode-locked lasers

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 793-795

  Ablowitz, Mark J ^a   Horikis, Theodoros P ^b   Nixon, Sean D ^a   Frantzeskakis, Dimitri J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHT PULSE; DARK SOLITONS; DINGER EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; SATURATION MODEL;

LASERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79952827935     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.000793     Document Type: Article

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