Experimental study of the nonlinear dynamics of an actively q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1484-1493

  Barmenkov, Yuri O ^a   Kir'Yanov, Alexander V ^a   Andrés, Miguel V ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active Q switching; chaos; GTWave fiber; jitter; laser dynamics; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Yb doped fiber

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTO OPTICAL Q SWITCHES; ACTIVE Q-SWITCHING; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LASER DYNAMICS; LOW REPETITION RATE; NONLINEAR LASERS; PULSE AMPLITUDE; PULSE SPACINGS; Q-SWITCHES; REPETITION RATE; SPECIFIC REGIME; SUBHARMONICS; TEMPORAL WIDTH; TRANSIENT REGIME; YB-DOPED FIBERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

CHAOS THEORY; DYNAMICS; FIBER LASERS; JITTER; LIGHT MODULATORS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; YTTERBIUM;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 84867829942     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2220530     Document Type: Article

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