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Square nanosecond mode-locked laser based on nonlinear amplifying loop mirror

Liu et al., 2014

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10058180934305018333
Author
Liu Y
Li W
Shen X
Wang C
Yang Z
Zeng H
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IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

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Square nanosecond mode-locking was demonstrated in a short-cavity polarization- maintaining (PM) fiber laser with a nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM). Nonlinear phase shifts in the NALM enforced peak-power clamping and accordingly, the output pulse …
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