Dual-wavelength mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser using highly nonlinear fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2066-2068

  Chen, Zhe ^a   Sun, Hongzhi ^a   Ma, Shaozhen ^a   Dutta, Niloy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber (EDF) laser; Mode locking; Multiwavelength pulsing

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); RING LASERS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

DUAL WAVELENGTHS; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER (EDF) LASER; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER RING LASERS; FREQUENCY CHIRPS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKING; MULTIWAVELENGTH PULSING; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PULSE WIDTHS; SINGLE-MODE FIBERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 59649108308     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2006402     Document Type: Article

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