Four-wave mixing assisted self-stable 4×10 GHz actively mode-locked Erbium fiber ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1726-1730

  Tang, M ^a   Tian, X L ^a   Shum, P ^a   Fu, S N ^a   Dong, H ^a   Gong, Y D ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FIBER LASERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RING LASERS;

FIBER RING LASERS; NOISE SUPPRESSION; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 33644749323     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001726     Document Type: Article

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