Generation of 120-fs laser pulses at 1-GHz repetition rate derived from continuous wave laser diode

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22402-22409

  Ishizawa, Atsushi ^a   Nishikawa, Tadashi ^a   Mizutori, Akira ^b   Takara, Hidehiko ^c   Nakano, Hidetoshi ^a   Sogawa, Tetsuomi ^a   Takada, Atsushi ^d   Koga, Masafumi ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PHASE MODULATION; Q SWITCHED LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBRE AMPLIFIERS; MODE-LOCKING TECHNIQUES; NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; PROGRESSIVE EXPANSION; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE LASER; REPETITION RATE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ERBIUM; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIODE LASER; OPTICS; TIME;

ERBIUM; GLASS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80755180927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022402     Document Type: Article

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