Design of wavelength-switching erbium-doped fiber lasers with a multimode fiber Bragg grating using spatial-mode excitation and selection techniques

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-317

  Su, Lei ^a   Lu, Chao ^b   Hao, Jianzhong ^b   Li, Zhihong ^b   Wang, Yixin ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Displacement sensor; Erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL); Multimode fiber Bragg grating (MMFBG); Wavelength switching

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LASER MODES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DISPLACEMENT SENSOR; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; MULTIMODE FIBER BRAGG GRATING; WAVELENGTH SWITCHING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 13444267679     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.839440     Document Type: Article

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