Swept wavelength source in the 1 μm range

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4096-4106

  Nielsen, Frederik D ^a   Thrane, Lars ^a   Black, John F ^b   Bjarklev, Anders ^a   Andersen, Peter E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Reliant Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM THEORY; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); LIGHTWAVE SYNTHESIZED FREQUENCY SWEEPER (LSFS); NUMERICAL AMPLIFIER MODELS; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER (YDFA);

SCANNING;

EID: 21244481716     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004096     Document Type: Article

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