Enhancement of multiwavelength generation in the L-band by using a novel Brillouin-Erbium fiber laser with a passive EDF booster section

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11570-11575

  Mahdi, Mohd Adzir ^a   Al Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder ^b   Premaratne, Malin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BRILLOUIN-ERBIUM FIBER LASER; MULTIWAVELENGTH GENERATION;

FREQUENCY BANDS;

EID: 34548443429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011570     Document Type: Article

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