All-fiber dissipative solitons evolution in a compact passively Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2502-2507

  Li, Xiaohui ^a,b   Wang, Yishan ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Liu, Xianglian ^a,b   Wang, Yonggang ^c   Tsang, Yuen Hong ^c   Zhang, Wei ^a   Hu, Xiaohong ^a   Yang, Zhi ^a   Gao, Cunxiao ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Shen, Deyuan ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

All normal dispersion; bell shaped spectra; compression; mode locked fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; BIREFRINGENT PLATES; COMBINED EFFECT; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; FIBER CAVITY; LINEAR CHIRP; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; NORMAL DISPERSION; POLARIZATION ORIENTATION; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE EVOLUTION; PULSEWIDTHS; SPECTRAL FILTERING; THEORETICAL MODELING; WAVEPLATES; YB-DOPED FIBERS;

BELLS; COMPACTION; FIBER LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION; RING LASERS; SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 84863455098     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2201210     Document Type: Article

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