@inproceedings{204e3b1147574f8da556b8e81cf62a19,
title = "The role of the saturable absorber in a mode-locked fiber laser",
abstract = "We experimentally investigated the role of the saturable absorber (SA) in a mode-locked fiber laser. It is shown that the modulation depth of the SA significantly affects the pulse duration at the laser output for a given cavity design (mainly cavity dispersion and nonlinearity).",
keywords = "Fiber laser, mode-locking, saturable absorber, ultrafast laser",
author = "Dmitriy Churin and Khanh Kieu and Nasser Peyghambarian",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1117/12.909499",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819488800",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
booktitle = "Fiber Lasers IX",
note = "Fiber Lasers IX: Technology, Systems, and Applications ; Conference date: 23-01-2012 Through 26-01-2012",
}