Random distributed feedback fibre laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 231-235

  Turitsyn, Sergei K ^a   Babin, Sergey A ^b   El Taher, Atalla E ^a   Harper, Paul ^a   Churkin, Dmitriy V ^b   Kablukov, Sergey I ^b   Ania Castãón, Juan Diego ^a,c   Karalekas, Vassilis ^a   Podivilov, Evgenii V ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISORDERED MEDIA; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; GLASS STRUCTURE; INHOMOGENEITIES; RANDOM LASERS; TRANSVERSE CONFINEMENT; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

FIBERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 77950505123     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.4     Document Type: Article

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