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Bistability, Bifurcation, and Chaos in Nonlinear Loop Fiber Lasers

Le Nguyen Binh

Hua Wei Technologies, European Research Center, Munich, Germany

CONTENTS

7.1 Overview

7.2 Introduction

7.3 Optical Bistability, Bifurcation, and Chaos

7.4 Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

7.5 Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror

7.6 Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror/Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror (NOLM-NALM) Fiber Ring Lasers

7.7 Experiment Setups and Analyses

7.7.1 Bidirectional Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Laser

7.7.2 NOLM-NALM Fiber Ring Laser

7.7.3 Amplitude Modulated NOLM-NALM ...

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