Automatic electronic-controlled mode locking self-start in fibre lasers with non-linear polarisation evolution

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 20626-20631

  Radnatarov, Daba ^a   Khripunov, Sergey ^a   Kobtsev, Sergey ^a   Ivanenko, Aleksey ^a   Kukarin, Sergey ^a  

^a NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; LOW-VOLTAGE; OUTPUT RADIATION; SELF STARTS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SOLITONS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84884542090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.020626     Document Type: Article

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