Multiwavelength picosecond and single wavelength femtosecond pulses emission in a passively modelocked fiber laser using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror and a contrast ratio tunable comb filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2831-2835

  Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; LASER MIRRORS; MIRRORS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BROAD-BAND SPECTRUM; CHANNEL SPACINGS; FLEXIBLE FIBERS; MULTI-WAVELENGTHS; MULTIWAVELENGTH LASING; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSED OPERATION; SINGLE WAVELENGTH;

COMB FILTERS;

EID: 79959395180     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002831     Document Type: Article

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