10 GHz, 1.1 ps optical pulse generation from a regeneratively mode-locked Yb fiber laser in the 1.1 μm band

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25426-25432

  Koizumi, Kengo ^a   Yoshida, Masato ^a   Hirooka, Toshihiko ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; TIMING JITTER; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTERBIUM;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; FIBER CAVITY; MODE-LOCKED YB FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL); SOLITON LASER; STABLE MODE LOCKING;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 82955181196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025426     Document Type: Article

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