Adjustable noiselike pulses from a figure-eight fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Pottiez, Olivier ^a   Grajales Coutiño, Rubén ^b   Ibarra Escamilla, Baldemar ^c   Kuzin, Evgeny A ^c   Hernández García, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA BENITO JUÁREZ DE OAXACA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLARIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

INPUT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PULSED OPERATION; SPECTRAL VARIATION; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 80052377731     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000E24     Document Type: Article

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