Pump efficiency improvement of a C-band tunable fiber laser using optical circulator and tunable fiber gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2280-2285

  Liaw, S K ^a   Jang, W Y ^a   Wang, C J ^a   Hung, K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ROUTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUNING;

OPTICAL CIRCULATOR; OUTPUT POWER; PUMPING EFFICIENCY;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 34250693641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002280     Document Type: Article

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