AM mode-locked fibre ring laser generating highly stable, higher-order optical pulse trains with a wavelength tuning range of 1535 nm -1560 nm

2001 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP 2001

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 141-144

  Gupta, K K ^a   Onodera, N ^b   Abedin, K S ^a   Hyodo, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; RING LASERS; TIMING JITTER;

FABRY-PEROT ETALONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; MODULATION SIGNALS; OPTICAL FILTERING; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; REPETITION FREQUENCY; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH-TUNING RANGE;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84961618726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWP.2002.981816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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