Waveguide array fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1438-1442

  Chao, Qing ^a,b   Hudson, Darren D ^a   Kutz, J Nathan ^c   Cundiff, S T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Mode locking; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALGAAS WAVEGUIDES; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; NOISE BURSTS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 84887282868     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2209411     Document Type: Article

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