Tm3+-doped tellurite glass for a broadband amplifier at 1.47 μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2000, Pages 4979-4984

  Naftaly, Mira ^a   Shen, Shaoxiong ^a   Jha, Animesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

TELLURITE GLASSES;

GLASS;

EID: 0000694012     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004979     Document Type: Article

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