Characteristics of a wavelength-switching fiber laser source

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2783-2792

  Wang, Yong ^a   Tjin, Swee Chuan ^a   He, Liming ^b   Ngoi, Bryan Kok Ann ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fiber ring laser; Optically controlled phased array antenna; Sampled fiber Bragg grating; Tunable fiber Fabry Perot filter

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

WAVELENGTH-SWITCHING FIBER LASER SOURCES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0036863106     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1511245     Document Type: Article

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