Tunable multi-wavelength SOA based linear cavity dual-output port fiber laser using Lyot-Sagnac loop mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3202-3211

  Ummy, M A ^a   Madamopoulos, N ^b   Joyo, A ^b   Kouar, M ^a   Dorsinville, R ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; WAVELENGTH;

BAND OPERATIONS; DUAL PORT; FIBER LOOP MIRRORS; GAIN COMPRESSION; LASER LINES; LASING WAVELENGTH; LINEAR CAVITY; LYOT-SAGNAC LOOP; MULTI WAVELENGTH FIBER LASER; MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPERATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH; OUTPUT PORTS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE; WAVELENGTH SEPARATION; WAVELENGTH STABILITY; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79951650654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003202     Document Type: Article

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