Continuous-wave and giant-pulse operations of a single-frequency erbium-doped fiber laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-30

  Barmenkov, Yuri O ^a   Kir'yanov, Alexander V ^a   Mora, Jose ^b   Cruz, Jose L ^b   Andrés, Miguel V ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW) regime; Erbium (Er) doped fiber laser; Giant pulse regime; Single frequency laser

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; STRESSES;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; GIANT PULSE OPERATIONS; SINGLE FREQUENCY LASER; SINUSOIDAL PUMP MODULATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 12344325864     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837267     Document Type: Article

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