Wide and fast wavelength-tunable mode-locked fiber laser based on dispersion tuning

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9299-9306

  Yamashita, Shinji ^a   Asano, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION FIBERS (DGF); DISPERSION TUNING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33749387418     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.14.009299     Document Type: Article

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