Evidence of dissipative solitons in Yb3+:CaYAlO4

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18495-18500

  Tan, W D ^a,d   Tang, D Y ^a   Xu, C W ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Xu, X D ^b   Li, D Z ^b   Xu, J ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^d Trump Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FIBER LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SOLITONS;

CHIRPED PULSE; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; END-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; OPERATING REGIMES;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 80052741751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018495     Document Type: Article

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