A wavelength tunable Q-switched fiber laser using fiber Bragg gratings

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part II: Electronics (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 12-21

  Imai, Takeshi ^a,b,c,d   Komukai, Tetsuro ^a,c,e,f   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a,c,g   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f IEEE   (Japan)

^g KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Er doped fiber; Fiber laser; Optical fiber grating; Piezoelectric transducer; Q switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85085782632     PISSN: 8756663X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6432(199711)80:11<12::aid-ecjb2>3.3.co;2-q     Document Type: Article

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