Mode-locked femtosecond all-normal all-PM Yb-doped fiber laser using a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10545-10551

  Aguergaray, Claude ^a   Broderick, Neil G R ^a   Erkintalo, Miro ^a   Chen, Jocelyn S Y ^b   Kruglov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Southern Photonics Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FIBER LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER DESIGNS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LOOP MIRROR; MODE-LOCKED; NEW DESIGN; NONLINEAR AMPLIFYING LOOP MIRRORS; NORMAL DISPERSION; PULSE PARAMETER; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

GLASS FIBER; YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 84861134195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010545     Document Type: Article

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