Efficient pump wavelengths of erbium-doped fibre optical amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 12-14

  Laming, R I ^a   Farries, M C ^a   Morkel, P R ^a   Reekie, L ^a   Payne, D N ^a   Scrivener, P L ^b   Fontana, F ^c   Righetti, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Pirelli General pic ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Pirelli Labs SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lasers; Optical communications; Optical fibres

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM AND ALLOYS; LIGHT--AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0024961532     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19890009     Document Type: Article

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