Vibration-Insensitive Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror Utilizing Reflective Scheme

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 555-557

  Shake, Ippei ^a   Takara, Hidehiko ^a   Uchiyama, Kentaro ^a   Kawanishi, Satoki ^a   Yamabayashi, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

External vibration; NOLM; Phase shift; Polarization rotating mirror; Sagnac effect; Sagnac interferometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000213893     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841284     Document Type: Article

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