A 40 GHz regeneratively and harmonically mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser and its longitudinal-mode characteristics

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1166-1172

  Yoshida, Masato ^a   Yaguchi, Taro ^a   Harada, Shinji ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifier; Fiber laser; Linewidth measurements; Mode locking; Ultrashort optical pulses

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LINEWIDTH MEASUREMENTS; MODE-LOCKING; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 3142781323     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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