Wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses from a passively mode-locked figure-eight Erbium-doped fiber laser with a Sagnac fiber filter

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ibarra Escamilla, B ^a,b   Pottiez, O ^c   Haus, J W ^a   Kuzin, E A ^b   Bello Jimenez M ^b   Flores Rosas, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Mode locked fiber laser; Nonlinear optical loop mirror; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949177293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2008.08036     Document Type: Article

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