Impact of gain medium dispersion on stability of soliton bound states in fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-135

  Gumenyuk, Regina ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical solitons

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDIA; ATTRACTIVE FORCE; BOUND STATE; FIBER CAVITY; GAIN MEDIA; GAIN MEDIUM; OPTICAL SOLITON; OPTIMAL DISPERSION; SOLITON FORMATION; SOLITON GENERATION; SOLITON INTERACTIONS;

FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84872233499     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2229699     Document Type: Article

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