Regenerative Er-doped fiber amplifier system for high-repetition-rate optical pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 357-361

  Liu, Yan ^a,b   Wu, Kan ^b   Li, Nanxi ^b   Lan, Lanling ^a   Yoo, Seongwoo ^b   Wu, Xuan ^b   Shum, Perry Ping ^b   Zeng, Shuguang ^a   Tan, Xinyu ^a  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

High repetition rate pulses; Nonlinear polarization rotation; Regenerative fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

ER-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH-REPETITION-RATE OPTICAL PULSE; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFICATION; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; WAVELENGTH-TUNING RANGE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 84902303472     PISSN: 12264776     EISSN: 20936885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3807/JOSK.2013.17.5.357     Document Type: Article

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