Tunable multiwavelength fiber laser using a comb filter based on erbium-ytterbium co-doped polarization maintaining fiber loop mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3652-3658

  Sun, Guoyong ^a   Moon, Dae Seung ^a   Lin, Aoxiang ^a   Han, Won Taek ^a   Chung, Youngjoo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; POLARIZATION; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CODOPED POLARIZATION; COMB FILTERS; FIBER LOOP MIRRORS;

FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 41149087922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003652     Document Type: Article

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