Branch arm filtered coherent combining of tunable fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7878-7883

  Chen, Sheng Ping ^a   Li, Yi Gang ^a   Lu, Ke Cheng ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RESONATORS;

POWER FLUCTUATION; SPECTRAL QUALITY; TUNABLE FIBER LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 30144438677     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007878     Document Type: Article

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