Performance Reduction and Design Modification of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers Resulting from Pair-Induced Quenching

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1427-1429

  Nilsson, J ^a   Jaskorzynska, B ^b   Blixt, P ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ACREO AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ERBIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

AMPLIFER PERFORAMNCE REDUCTION; ERBIUM DOPED INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; ERBIUM-ION PAIRS; PAIR-INDUCED QUENCHING (PIQ);

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0027886844     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.262560     Document Type: Article

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