Theory and experiment of a fiber loop mirror filter of two-stage polarization-maintaining fibers and polarization controllers for multiwavelength fiber ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10573-10583

  Wang, Jing ^a   Zheng, Kai ^a   Peng, Jian ^a   Liu, Lisong ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Jian, Shuisheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FIBERS; LASER MIRRORS; LASER THEORY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POLARIZATION; RING LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER RING LASERS; FIBER LOOP MIRRORS; FIBER-RING LASERS; JONES MATRIX; MULTIWAVELENGTH; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; TRANSMISSION FUNCTION; TRIPLE WAVELENGTHS;

POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER;

EID: 67649258938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010573     Document Type: Article

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