Three key regimes of single pulse generation per round trip of all-normal-dispersion fiber lasers mode-locked with nonlinear polarization rotation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 27447-27453

  Smirnov, Sergey ^a   Kobtsev, Sergey ^a   Kukarin, Sergey ^a   Ivanenko, Aleksey ^a,b  

^a NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODE-LOCKED; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; ROUND TRIP; SINGLE PULSE; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TO EFFECT;

DISPERSIONS; FIBER LASERS; PULSE GENERATORS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84870609732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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