Wideband external cavity wavelength-tunable laser utilizing a liquid-crystal-based mirror and an intracavity etalon

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2226-2232

  Sato, Kenji ^a   Mizutani, Kenji ^a   Sudo, Shinya ^a   Tsuruoka, Kiyotaka ^a   Naniwae, Koichi ^a   Kudo, Koji ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Etalon; External cavity; Liquid crystal (LC); Tunable laser; Tunable mirror

Indexed keywords

ETALONS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EXTERNAL CAVITY WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE LASER; SUPPRESSION RATIO;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 34548167307     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.901535     Document Type: Article

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