Bidirectional optical bistability in a dual-pumped erbium doped fiber ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5640-5645

  Lai, W J ^a   Shum, P ^a   Binh, L N ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COUPLERS; DUAL-PUMPED ERBIUM DOPED FIBER RING LASER; TRAVELLING-WAVE DEVICES;

RING LASERS;

EID: 10444228159     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005640     Document Type: Article

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