All-fiber Q-switched ring laser with increased repetition rate

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 764-766

  Cheng, X P ^a   Shum, P ^a   Tse, C H ^a   Wu, R F ^b   Tan, W C ^a   Tang, M ^a   Zhang, J ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot (FP) resonators; Piezoelectric transducers (PZT); Q switched lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249119790     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.921091     Document Type: Article

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