Pulse shaping and evolution in normal-dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 389-398

  Renninger, William H ^a   Chong, Andy ^a   Wise, Frank W ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissipative solitons (DS); fiber lasers; self similarity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FIBERS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; HIGH ENERGY PULSE; HIGH PEAK POWER; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; PEAK POWER; PHASE EVOLUTIONS; PULSE EVOLUTION; PULSE PROPAGATION; PULSE-SHAPING; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SPECTRAL FILTERING; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS; WAVEBREAKING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; SOLITONS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84856977007     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2157462     Document Type: Article

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