Demonstration of a rapidly strain tuned Er3+-doped fiber laser for sensitive gas detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3370-3375

  Wetjen, Eric T ^a,b   Sonnenfroh, David M ^a   Allen, Mark G ^a   Morse, Theodore F ^b  

^a PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FIBER OPTIC CHEMICAL SENSORS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL PUMPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING (FBG); FULL WIDTH AT HALF-MAXIMUM (FWHM); WAVELENGTH-MODULATION METHODS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032613905     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003370     Document Type: Article

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