Spectrally broadband Bragg grating mirror for an erbium-doped fiber laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1088-1092

  Othonos, Andreas ^a,c,e   Lee, Xavier ^a,d,f,g   Tsai, Din Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d QPS Technology Inc   (Canada)

^e Ontario Laser Lightwave Res Ctr

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g QPS Technology Inc

Author keywords

Bragg gratings; Broadband Bragg mirror; Erbium doped fiber laser; Interferometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012023416     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600725     Document Type: Article

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