Nanotube Q-switched low-threshold linear cavity tunable erbium-doped fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 5989-5992

  Dong, Bo ^a   Liaw, Chin Yi ^a   Hao, Jianzhong ^a   Hu, Junhao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ERBIUM; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; LINEAR CAVITY; LOW INSERTION LOSS; LOW THRESHOLDS; PUMP POWER; PUMP THRESHOLD;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 78149462444     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005989     Document Type: Article

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