Dual-wavelength 10-GHz actively mode-locked erbium fiber laser incorporating highly nonlinear fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2547-2549

  Gong, Y D ^a   Tang, M ^b   Shum, P ^b   Lu, C ^a   Wu, J ^c   Xu, K ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Actively mode locking; Fiber laser; Inhomogeneous gain broadening; Nonlinear fiber optics

Indexed keywords

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER MODE LOCKING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RING LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

ACTIVELY MODE LOCKING; INHOMOGENEOUS GAIN BROADENING; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 29244454568     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.859156     Document Type: Article

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