Fast and wide tuning range wavelength-swept fiber laser based on dispersion tuning and its application to dynamic FBG sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8310-8318

  Nakazaki, Yuichi ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT; FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSING SYSTEM; OPTICAL TUNABLE FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH SWEPT LASER; WAVELENGTH-SWEPT FIBER LASERS; WIDE TUNING RANGE; WIDE WAVELENGTH TUNING;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 66449096225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008310     Document Type: Article

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