Wideband-tunable nanotube Q-switched low threshold erbium doped fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1442-1445

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

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NANOTUBES; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; YARN;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; LOW INSERTION LOSS; OPTICAL CIRCULATOR; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; TRANSMISSION WAVELENGTH; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH RANGE; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATORS;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 79958708402     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001442     Document Type: Article

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