Utilizations of two-stage erbium amplifier and saturable-absorber filter for tunable and stable power-equalized fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3680-3684

  Yeh, Chien Hung ^a   Chi, Sien ^b,c  

^a INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SUPERRADIANCE;

ABSORBER FILTERS; ERBIUM DOPED WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIER (EDWA); FIBER REFLECTED MIRRORS (FRM); SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE (SLM);

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34147109757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003680     Document Type: Article

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