All-optical, actively Q-switched fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 7714-7723

  Williams, Robert J ^a   Jovanovic, Nemanja ^a   Marshall, Graham D ^a   Withford , Michael J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q SWITCHED LASERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ACTIVE Q-SWITCH; ACTIVE Q-SWITCHING; ACTIVE SYSTEMS; ACTIVELY Q-SWITCHED; ALL-FIBER LASERS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; TUNABLE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 77950887326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007714     Document Type: Article

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