Compact all-fiber ring femtosecond laser with high fundamental repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24607-24613

  Wei, Xiaoming ^a   Xu, Shanhui ^a   Huang, Huichang ^a   Peng, Mingying ^a   Yang, Zhongmin ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER LASERS; CO-DOPED; INTEGRATED MODULE; MODELOCKING; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; OPTICAL MODULES; PHOSPHATE GLASS FIBERS; REPETITION RATE;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; RING LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 84868255140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024607     Document Type: Article

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