Passively synchronized two-color mode-locked fiber system based on master-slave lasers geometry

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4719-4724

  Rusu, Matei ^a   Herda, Robert ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; LASER MODE LOCKING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION; YTTRIUM;

CAVITY MISMATCH; CROSS-PHASE MODULATION (XPM); NOISE-FREE PULSE-LOCKING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 9144261193     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004719     Document Type: Article

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