Electrical wavelength-tunable actively mode-locked fiber ring laser with a linearly chirped fiber bragg grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 799-801

  Li, Shenping ^a   Chan, K T ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; Optical fiber device; Optical fiber lasers; Rare earth materials devices; Wavelength tuning

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RING LASERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032094927     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681488     Document Type: Article

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