Tunable and switchable dual-wavelength dissipative soliton generation in an all-normaldispersion Yb-doped fiber laser with birefringence fiber filter

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26736-26742

  Zhang, Z X ^a   Xu, Z W ^a   Zhang, L ^a  

^a JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; BIREFRINGENCE FIBERS; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; PASSBANDS; SINGLE WAVELENGTH; SPECTRUM-MODULATION; SWITCHABLE; TUNABILITIES; WAVELENGTH TUNING; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

AIR FILTERS; FIBER LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; SOLITONS; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FILTRATION; HUMAN; LASER; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LASERS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84870583395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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