Dissipative Soliton (12 nJ) From an All-Fiber Passively Mode-Locked Laser With Large Normal Dispersion

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 881-887

  Ouyang, Chunmei ^a   Shum, Perry Ping ^a,b   Wu, Kan ^a   Wong, Jia Haur ^a   Wu, Xuan ^a   Aditya, Sheel ^a   Lam, Huy Quoc ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; mode locked lasers; pulse compression; pulse shaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020189     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2169659     Document Type: Article

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