Characteristics of multimode fiber Bragg gratings and their influences on external-cavity semiconductor lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1903-1912

  Yu, Hong Gang ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Xu, Qing Yang ^a   Xu, Chang Qing ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

External cavity semiconductor lasers (ECSLs); Fiber Bragg grating (FBG); Multimode fiber (MMF); Polarization; Side mode suppression ratio (SMSR)

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BRAGG WAVELENGTH; EXTERNAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS (ECSLS); MULTIMODE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (MMFBGS); REFLECTION SPECTRA; SIDE-MODE-SUPPRESSION RATIO (SMSR);

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33645836730     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.871029     Document Type: Article

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