Tunable and switchable multiwavelength passively mode-locked fiber laser based on SESAM and inline birefringence comb filter

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Luo, Zhi Chao ^a   Luo, Ai Ping ^a   Xu, Wen Cheng ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

comb filter; Multiwavelength fiber lasers; passively mode locked; saturable absorber

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMB FILTERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; LASER MIRRORS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; POLARIZATION; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRRORS;

MULTI WAVELENGTH FIBER LASER; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; SWITCHABLE MULTI WAVELENGTHS; SWITCHABLE OPERATIONS; WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT LOSS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79251645661     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2102012     Document Type: Article

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