Waveband-tunable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2653-2657

  Lin, Hermann ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INTEGRATED STRUCTURE; LASING WAVELENGTH; MULTIWAVELENGTH ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER;

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EID: 77955936619     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.002653     Document Type: Article

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