Seamless tuning range based-on available gain bandwidth in multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 5944-5952

  Ajiya, M ^a   Mahdi, M A ^a   Al Mansoori, M H ^b   Hitam, S ^a   Mokhtar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS;

BRILLOUIN FIBER LASER; BRILLOUIN-ERBIUM FIBER LASERS; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL SET UP; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; MULTIWAVELENGTH BRILLOUIN/ERBIUM FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65149088988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005944     Document Type: Article

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