Product design issues relating to rare-earth doped fiber ring lasers and superfluorescence sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sousa, João M ^a   Melo, Miguel ^a   Ferreira, Luís A ^a,b   Salcedo, José R ^a   Berendt, Martin O ^a  

^a Multiwave Photonics SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Broadband sources; Erbium doped fiber; Fiber laser; Saturable absorber; Singlemode lasers; Ytterbium doped fiber

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; RING LASERS;

BROADBAND SOURCES; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER; SATURABLE ABSORBER; SINGLEMODE LASERS; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645974054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.647843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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