All-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber ring oscillator operated at solitary and noiselike modes

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3750-3752

  Wang, Q ^a   Chen, T ^a   Zhang, B ^a   Heberle, A P ^b   Chen, K P ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b One Riverfront Plaza ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SOURCE; AUTOCORRELATION MEASUREMENT; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; FIBER RINGS; LASER CAVITY; MODE-LOCKED; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; TWO-REGIME;

ERBIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; THULIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 80053584389     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003750     Document Type: Article

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