Bright–Dark Pulse Pair in a Figure-Eight Dispersion-Managed Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1647-1652

  Ning, Qiu Yi ^a   Wang, Shi Ke ^a   Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Lin, Zhen Bin ^a   Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bright dark pulse pair; fiber laser; figure eight; nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008583729     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2212878     Document Type: Article

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