Widely tunable dual-wavelength Er3+-doped fiber laser for tunable continuous-wave terahertz radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12291-12297

  Jeon, Min Yong ^a,b   Kim, Namje ^b   Shin, Jaeheon ^b   Jeong, Jong Sool ^b   Han, Sang Pil ^b   Lee, Chul Wook ^b   Leem, Young Ahn ^b   Yee, Dae Su ^c   Chun, Hyang Sook ^d   Park, Kyung Hyun ^b  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^d Korea Food Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; TUNING; WAVELENGTH;

CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE TERAHERTZ RADIATIONS; DOPED FIBER; DUAL WAVELENGTH FIBER LASERS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; FINE TUNING; INTEGRATED FABRY-PEROT; MICROHEATER; PHOTOMIXERS; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ RADIATION; WAVELENGTH SPACING; WIDELY TUNABLE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77953587796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012291     Document Type: Article

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