Tunable multi-wavelength SOA fiber laser based on a Sagnac loop mirror using an elliptical core side-hole fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8371-8376

  Moon, Dae Seung ^a   Kim, Bok Hyeon ^a   Lin, Aoxlang ^a   Sun, Guoyong ^a   Han, Won Taek ^a   Han, Young Geun ^b   Chung, Youngjoo ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; HEATING; MIRRORS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH;

CHANNEL SPACING; DISCRETE CHANNELS; SAGNAC LOOP MIRRORS; TEMPORAL POWER FLUCTUATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34250884473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008371     Document Type: Article

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