Advanced materials for fibre and waveguide amplifiers

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 194-199

  Wilkinson, James S ^a   Hempstead, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASE amplified spontaneous emission; CATV central antenna TV; CdX cadmium mixed halide; EDA erbium doped amplifier; EDFA erbium doped fibre amplifier; EDPA erbium doped planar (integrated optical) amplifier; ESA excited state absorption; GLS Ga La S

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000455626     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0286(97)80065-4     Document Type: Article

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