Optical bistability in fiber ring resonator containing an erbium doped fiber amplifier and quantum dot doped fiber saturable absorber

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 7016-7024

  Tofighi, Sara ^a   Farshemi, Somayeh Safari ^b   Sajjad, Batool ^b   Shahshahani, Fatemeh ^b   Bahrampour, Ali Reza ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BISTABLE DEVICES; DOPED FIBER; FIBER RING RESONATORS; FIBER RINGS; IN-FIBER; RING RESONATOR; SWITCHING POWER;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84867364021     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.007016     Document Type: Article

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