Highly efficient rectangular pulse emission in a mode-locked fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 2082-2085

  Li, Xingliang ^a   Zhang, Shumin ^a   Zhang, Huaxing ^a   Han, Mengmeng ^a   Wen, Fang ^a   Yang, Zhenjun ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dissipative soliton resonance; Fiber lasers; mode locked lasers; rectangular pulse

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; RECTANGULAR PULSE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84907482570     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2347296     Document Type: Article

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