Pulse bursts with a controllable number of pulses from a mode-locked Yb-doped all fiber laser system

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6699-6706

  Li, Xingliang ^a   Zhang, Shumin ^a   Hao, Yanping ^a   Yang, Zhenjun ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); Q SWITCHED LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

ALL-FIBER LASERS; AVERAGE POWER; HIGH PULSE REPETITION RATE; MODE-LOCKED; REPETITION RATE; SINGLE PULSE; YB-DOPED; YB-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84896964346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.006699     Document Type: Article

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