Multiwavelength actively mode-locked fiber ring laser with suppressed homogeneous line broadening and reduced supermode noise

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4529-4534

  Yao, Jian ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a   Deng, Zhichao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER OPTICS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSPARENCY;

HOMOGENEOUS LINE BROADENING; MULTIWAVELENGTH FIBER LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SUPERMODE NOISE;

RING LASERS;

EID: 6344254987     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004529     Document Type: Article

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