Low noise chirped pulse mode-locked laser using an intra-cavity Fabry-Pérot etalon

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8994-8999

  Mandridis, Dimitrios ^a   Williams, Charles ^a   Ozdur, Ibrahim ^a   Delfyett, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETALONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CAVITY DESIGN; CAVITY LENGTH; CHIRPED PULSE; EXTERNAL CAVITY; INTRACAVITIES; LASER CAVITY; LOCKING SCHEMES; LONG TERM STABILITY; LOW NOISE; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERIODIC FILTERS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; REPETITION RATE; SUPERMODE NOISE; UNIFORM INTENSITY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79955788274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008994     Document Type: Article

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