Widely tunable linear cavity multiwavelength Brillouin-Erbium fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3471-3476

  Al Mansoori, M H ^a   Abd Rahman, M Kamil ^b   Adikan, F R Mahamd ^c   Mahdi, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ERBIUM; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); TUNING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

NONLINEAR FIBERS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STOKES SIGNAL; TUNING RANGE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 21244458811     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003471     Document Type: Article

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