A broadly tunable wavelength-selectable WDM source using a fiber Sagnac loop filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1283-1285

  Libatique, Nathaniel J C ^b   Jain, Ravinder K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Fiber Sagnac birefringence filter; Fiber Sagnac loop filter; Wavelength division multiplexing sources; Wavelength selectable lasers; Wavelength switchable lasers

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC LOSSES; INSERTION LOSSES; LASER TUNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE FILTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WAVELENGTH-SELECTABLE LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0035674929     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.969882     Document Type: Article

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