Instantaneous lineshape analysis of Fourier domain mode-locked lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8802-8807

  Todor, Sebastian ^a   Biedermann, Benjamin ^b   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Huber, Robert ^b   Jirauschek, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; CENTER FREQUENCY; DETUNINGS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL NOISE; FILTER BANDWIDTH; FOURIER DOMAINS; INSTANTANEOUS POWER SPECTRUM; LINE SHAPE; LINE-SHAPE ANALYSIS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; ROUND-TRIP TIME;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 79955378379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008802     Document Type: Article

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