A stabilized and tunable single-frequency erbium-doped fiber ring laser employing external injection locking

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1027-1033

  Zhang, Xin ^a,b   Zhu, Ning Hua ^a   Xie, Liang ^a   Feng, Bo Xue ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL); Injection locking; Single longitudinal mode (SLM); Wavelength and power stabilization; Wavelength tunable

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; INJECTION LASERS; LASER TUNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STABILIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER RING LASER; INJECTION LOCKING; SINGLE-LONGITUDINAL MODE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34247623495     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.891458     Document Type: Article

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