Stable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser at room temperature with tunable wavelength, wavelength spacing, and channel number

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Pan, Shilong ^a   Lou, Caiyun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erbium lasers; Fiber lasers; Four wave mixing; Multiwavelength; Polarization; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION EMULATOR; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847728240     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2388955     Document Type: Article

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