Multiwavelength switching of raman fiber ring laser incorporating composite polarization-maintaining fiber Lyot-Sagnac filter

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3151-3157

  Kim, Chang Seok ^a,b   Kang, Jin U ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FILTERS; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCHING; OPTICAL CROSS CONNECTS (OXC); POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER (PMF); WAVELENGTH-ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORKS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 2542598598     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003151     Document Type: Article

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