Observation of dissipative soliton resonance in a net-normal dispersion figure-of-eight fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Jin Hui ^a   Guo, Chun Yu ^a   Ruan, Shuang Chen ^a   Ouyang, De Qin ^a   Lin, Huai Qin ^a   Wu, Yi Ming ^a   Wen, Ru Hua ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; mode locked lasers; solitons

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CONSTANT VALUES; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; INTRACAVITIES; MAXIMUM PUMP POWER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PULSE ENERGIES; RESONANCE REGION;

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RESONANCE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84879354553     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2265982     Document Type: Article

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