Output power characteristics of tunable erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1334-1341

  Dong, Xinyong ^a   Shum, P ^a   Ngo, N Q ^a   Tam, H Y ^b   Dong, Xiaoyi ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber; Modeling; Optical fiber laser; Pair induced quenching; Ring laser; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; RING LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER RING LASERS; PAIR INDUCED QUENCHING; TUNABLE LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 18144391963     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.839986     Document Type: Article

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