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Soliton Raman fibre-ring oscillators

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Results are presented on the operation and optimization of soliton Raman fibre-ring lasers using a c.w. mode-locked Nd-YAG laser at 1.32μm as the source of 100 ps pump pulses. Various lengths of standard single-mode silica fibre were used, and tunable pulses as short as 100 fs generated.

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  1. A. S. L. Gomes

    Present address: Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50000 PE, Recife, Brasil

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  1. Laser Optics Group, Physics Department, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2BZ, London, UK

    A. S. Gouveia-Neto, A. S. L. Gomes & J. R. Taylor

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Gouveia-Neto, A.S., Gomes, A.S.L. & Taylor, J.R. Soliton Raman fibre-ring oscillators. Opt Quant Electron 20, 165–174 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02098268

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