Fundamental thermal noise in distributed feedback fiber lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 378-384

  Foster, Scott ^a   Tikhomirov, Alexei ^a   Milnes, Mark ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Laser noise; Optical fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL NOISE;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK FIBER LASER; THERMAL FLUCTUATION SPECTRUM; THERMAL FREQUENCY NOISE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34047217729     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.894744     Document Type: Article

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