Tunable ring laser using a tapered single mode fiber tip

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 6827-6831

  Wang, Xiaozhen ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; RING LASERS;

COST EFFECTIVE; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TAPERED SINGLE-MODE FIBERS; TIP SHAPE; TUNABLE RING LASERS; TUNABLE SOURCE; TUNING RANGES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 73649132281     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006827     Document Type: Article

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