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Mode-locked all-fiber lasers based on advanced acousto-optic modulators

Bello-Jiménez et al., 2011

Document ID
7491318503727641824
Author
Bello-Jiménez M
Cuadrado-Laborde C
Díez A
Cruz J
Andrés M
Publication year
Publication venue
22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World

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The development of efficient in-fiber amplitude modulators that operate in the MHz frequency range has enabled some recent advances in actively mode-locked all-fiber lasers. Our approach is based on the excitation of a standing acoustic wave along the fiber, which …
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