Rational harmonic mode-locking of Erbium-doped fiber laser at 40 GHz using a loss-modulated Fabry-Pérot laser diode

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1810-1812

  Lin, Gong Ru ^a   Chang, Yung Cheng ^a   Wu, Jung Rung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; INJECTION LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT MODULATION; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FABRY-PEROT LASER DIODE; INJECTION LOCKING; LOSS MODULATION; RATIONAL HARMONIC MODE LOCKING; REPETITION FREQUENCY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4043118417     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831057     Document Type: Article

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