Smart Q-switching for single-pulse generation in an erbium-doped fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4397-4402

  Escalante Zarate, Luis ^a   Barmenkov, Yuri O ^a   Kolpakov, Stanislav A ^b   Cruz, José L ^b   Andrés, Miguel V ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS;

ACTIVE Q-SWITCHING; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FIBER CAVITY; LASER GEOMETRIES; LASER WAVES; Q-SWITCHES; SINGLE-PULSE; SPECIAL MODULATION;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84857308145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004397     Document Type: Article

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