Sub-50-fs pulse generation from thulium-doped ZBLAN fiber laser oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 12461-12466

  Nomura, Yutaka ^a   Fuji, Takao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; THULIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; LOW DISPERSIONS; OUTPUT PULSE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE GENERATION; REPETITION RATE; ZBLAN FIBER;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84901269417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.012461     Document Type: Article

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