High-efficiency single-frequency Brillouin fiber laser with a tunable coupling coefficient

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1424-1430

  Norcia, Stéphanie ^a   Frey, Robert ^b   Tonda Goldstein, Sylvie ^a   Dolfi, Daniel ^a   Huignard, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); RING LASERS;

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; OPTOELECTRONIC LINKS; PUMP DEPLETION; SINGLE FREQUENCY FIBER LASER; STOKES INTENSITIES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 10044264490     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001424     Document Type: Article

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