Observations of four types of pulses in a fiber laser with large net-normal dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7616-7624

  Wang, Leiran ^a   Liu, Xueming ^a   Gong, Yongkang ^a   Mao, Dong ^a   Duan, Lina ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-FIBER LASERS; CONTINUUM GENERATIONS; DISPERSION PULSE; ERBIUM DOPED; FEMTOSECONDS; GAUSSIANS; MULTIPULSES; NORMAL DISPERSION; OPERATING REGIMES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLARIZATION STATE; PULSE ENERGIES; SINGLE-PULSE; SUPERCONTINUUM;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79953892270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007616     Document Type: Article

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