GENERATION OF FEMTOSECOND SOLITON PULSES BY PASSIVE-MODE LOCKING OF AN YTTERBIUM ERBIUM FIGURE-OF-8 FIBER LASER

被引:75
作者
GUY, MJ
NOSKE, DU
TAYLOR, JR
机构
[1] Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, Prince Consort Road
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10.1364/OL.18.001447
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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250-fs pulses have been generated directly from a passively mode-locked ytterbium-erbium figure-of-eight laser. In addition to the usual characteristic of one pulse per round trip, the laser could be made to produce regular pulse bursts at the round-trip frequency, with repetition rates in excess of 300 GHz.
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页数:3
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