Passive synchronization of all-fiber lasers through a common saturable absorber

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3984-3986

  Zhang, M ^a   Kelleher, E J R ^a   Pozharov, A S ^b   Obraztsova, E D ^b   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER LASERS; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKING BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR COUPLING; REPETITION RATE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SYNCHRONIZED PULSE;

FIBER LASERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLITONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 80054772939     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003984     Document Type: Article

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