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Tunable dual wavelength fiber laser incorporating AWG and optical channel selector by controlling the cavity loss

Ahmad et al., 2009

Document ID
8716004294219816044
Author
Ahmad H
Zulkifli M
Latif A
Harun S
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Optics communications

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In this paper, we propose and demonstrated a dual wavelength fiber laser (DWFL) based on the use of an erbium doped fiber (EDF) gain medium as well as an 1× 24 Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) together with two optical channel selectors (OCS) to provide …
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