10 GHz femtosecond pulse interleaver in planar waveguide technology

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4102-4113

  Sander, Michelle Y ^a   Frolov, Sergey ^b   Shmulovich, Joseph ^b   Ippen, Erich P ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b CyOptics Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; TURBO CODES;

COHERENT PULSE; ER-DOPED; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INTERLEAVERS; PULSE TRAIN; REPETITION RATE; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION; THERMAL TUNING; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 84857335784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004102     Document Type: Article

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