Ion-exchanged Er/Yb phosphate glass waveguide amplifiers and lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1188-1192

  Shooshtari, Alireza ^a,c   Meshkinfam, Peyman ^a,c   Touam, Tahar ^a   Andrews, Mark P ^b,d,e   Najafi, S Iraj ^a,f,g,h  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^f SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^g ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Integrated optics; Lasers; Photonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000258125     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601953     Document Type: Article

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