Multi-gigahertz repetition-rate-selectable passive harmonic mode locking of a fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 10897-10902

  Lecaplain, Caroline ^a   Grelu, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; HARMONICALLY MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS; LASER OUTPUT; PASSIVE HARMONIC MODE-LOCKING; REPETITION RATE; SUPERMODE SUPPRESSION;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBER OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 84878618374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010897     Document Type: Article

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