Femtosecond wavelength tunable semiconductor optical amplifier fiber laser mode-locked by backward dark-optical-comb injection at 10 GHz

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 8772-8780

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a   Chiu, I Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOLITONS;

LASING LINEWIDTH; PULSE COMPRESSION; SOLITON COMPRESSION; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 27544507288     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008772     Document Type: Article

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