Multiwavelength Raman fiber laser with a continuously-tunable spacing

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3288-3293

  Dong, Xinyong ^a   Shum, P ^a   Ngo, N Q ^a   Chan, C C ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVE FILTERS;

CHANNEL NUMBER; CHIRPED-FIBER BRAGG GRATING (CFBG); FREE-SPECTRAL-RANGE (FSR)-TUNABLE COMB FILTER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645816778     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003288     Document Type: Article

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