Bidirectional grating wavelength shifter with a broad-range tunability by using a beam of uniform strength

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 326-328

  Qin, Zixiong ^a,b   Zeng, Qingke ^a,b   Yang, Xiang ^a   Feng, Dejun ^a   Ding, Lei ^a   Kai, Guiyun ^a   Liu, Zhiguo ^a   Yuan, Shuzhong ^a   Dong, Xiaoyi ^a   Liu, Ning ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam of uniform strength; Chirp free broad tuning; Fiber Bragg grating

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BIDIRECTIONAL GRATING WAVELENGTH SHIFTERS; WAVELENGTH ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS (WADM);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0035303407     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.917840     Document Type: Article

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