Dual-wavelength DFB erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength spacing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 254-256

  Villanueva, Guillermo E ^a   Pérez Millán, Pere ^a   Paláci, Jesús ^a   Cruz, José L ^b   Andrés, Miguel V ^b   Martí, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dual wavelength laser; Fiber bragg gratings (fbgs); Fiber lasers; Microwave (mw) generation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; DUAL-WAVELENGTH LASER; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; FREQUENCY TUNING RANGE; LASER SIGNALS; LOCAL PHASE; MICROWAVE CARRIERS; OPTICAL HARMONICS; OPTICAL RESONANCE; PHOTO DETECTION; TUNABILITIES; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH SPACING; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS; WAVELENGTH;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 77955217169     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2038594     Document Type: Article

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