Switchable multiwavelength ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser based on a multimode fiber grating

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3579-3582

  Fu, Shenggui ^a   Si, Libin ^a   Guo, Zhancheng ^a   Yuan, Shuzhong ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a   Dong, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

MULTIMODE FIBER BRAGG GRATING (MMFG); MULTIWAVELENGTH DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34547536279     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003579     Document Type: Article

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