Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with 0.8-nm spacing using sampled Bragg grating and photonic crystal fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2538-2540

  Yang, Xiufeng ^a   Dong, Xinyong ^b   Zhang, Shumin ^a,c   Lu, Fuyun ^a,c   Zhou, Xiaoqun ^a   Lu, Chao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber lasers (EDFLs); Four wave mixing (FWM); Multiwavelength fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONCURRENT LASING; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS (EDFLS); MULTIWAVELENGTH FIBER LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 29244474900     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.858076     Document Type: Article

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