Environmentally stable all-PM all-fiber giant chirp oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 22669-22674

  Erkintalo, Miro ^a   Aguergaray, Claude ^a   Runge, Antoine ^a   Broderick, Neil G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ALL FIBER; CAVITY LENGTH; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR AMPLIFYING LOOP MIRRORS; OSCILLATOR ENERGY; PULSE ENERGIES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LENSES; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 84866698724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.022669     Document Type: Article

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