Tunable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser stabilized by four-wave mixing in a 35-cm highly nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5925-5930

  Fok, Mable P ^a   Shu, Chester ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIREFRINGENCE; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ABRUPT REDUCTION; INTENSITY FLUCTUATION; TUNABLE BANDPASS FILTERS; TUNABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34248543624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005925     Document Type: Article

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