Wavelength tuning of fiber lasers using multimode interference effects

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9439-9445

  Selvas, R ^a   Torres Gomez, I ^a   Martinez Rios, A ^a   Alvarez Chavez, J A ^a   May Arrioja, D A ^b   LiKamWa, P ^b   Mehta, A ^b   Johnson, E G ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

BROADBAND MIRRORS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE EFFECTS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 27744514567     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009439     Document Type: Article

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