Switchable multiwavelength erbium doped fiber laser based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror incorporating multiple fiber Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1460-1465

  Van Tran, Thi Anh ^a   Lee, Kwanil ^a   Lee, Sang Bae ^a   Han, Young Geun ^b  

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

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STABILIZATION; WAVELENGTH;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; SWITCHABLE MULTIWAVELENGTH;

ERBIUM;

ERBIUM;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 39049131970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001460     Document Type: Article

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