Multiwavelength Erbium-doped fiber laser employing nonlinear polarization rotation in a symmetric nonlinear optical loop mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 15160-15166

  Tian, Jiajun ^a   Yao, Yong ^a   Sun, Yunxu ^a   Yu, Xuelian ^a   Chen, Deying ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LASER MIRRORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLARIZATION; RING LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPERATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; OUTPUT WAVELENGTHS; POLARIZATION STATE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 69049088828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015160     Document Type: Article

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