A passively mode-locked fiber laser only based on D-shaped fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2427-2430

  Gao, Lei ^a   Zhu, Tao ^a   Zeng, Jing ^a   Huang, Wei ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

D shaped fiber; harmonic mode locking; nonlinear polarization rotation; Passively mode locked fiber laser

Indexed keywords

D-SHAPED FIBER; FIBER-RING LASERS; HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; REPETITION RATE;

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLARIZATION; RING LASERS;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 84889593228     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2287873     Document Type: Article

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