The use of the principal states of polarization to describe tunability in a fiber laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 642-648

  Friedman, Nir ^a,b,c   Eyal, Avishay ^a,d,e,f   Tur, Moshe ^a,b,c,g,h,i  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f Faculty of Engineering   (Italy)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Information Systems Laboratory   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium doped optical fibers; Optical fiber lasers; Optical fiber polarization; Polarization mode dispersion; Principal states of polarization; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

ERBIUM DOPED OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031140386     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.572137     Document Type: Article

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