Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Specialty-fiber amplifier for a mode-locked Tm-laser with intracavity dispersion compensation

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Speciality-Fiber Amplifier for a Mode-Locked Tm-Laser with Intracavity Dispersion Compensation"
by Igor V. Mel'nikova and Anton N. Knigavko
in the 2012 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP), Sept. 2012, pp 108-109

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains substantial duplication of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"A High Power MOPA-laser Based on a Mode-locked Thulium-doped Fiber Oscillator with Intracavity Dispersion Management"
by A A Krylov, M A Chernysheva, D S Chernykh and I M Tupitsyn
in Laser Physics, Vol 23, No 4--Accepted for publication in March 2012


Combining a mode-locked Tm-fiber laser with intracavity dispersion management with an Yb/Tm-doped GTWave-fiber amplifier yields a 1930–1970 nm pulses with pulsewidth down to 200 fs and energy up to 56 nJ.