An electronically wavelength-tunable mode-locked fiber laser using an all-fiber acoustooptic tunable filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1618-1620

  Jeon, Min Yong ^a,b   Lee, Hak Kyu ^a,b   Kim, Kyong Hon ^a,b   Lee, El Hang ^a,b   Yun, Seok Hyun ^c   Kim, Byoung Yoon ^a,c   Koh, Yeon Wan ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d TIC/TBI   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALL FIBER ACOUSTOOPTIC TUNABLE FILTERS; SLIDING FREQUENCY EFFECT; TUNING RANGE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030379593     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.544696     Document Type: Article

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