The Effect of Pair-Induced Energy Transfer on the Performance of Silica Waveguide Amplifiers with High Er3+ /Yb3+ Concentrations

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 303-305

  Federighi, M ^a   Di Pasquale, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ERBIUM; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RARE EARTHS; YTTERBIUM;

PAIR INDUCED ENERGY TRANSFER; RATE EQUATIONS MODEL; SILICA WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; UPCONVERSION MECHANISMS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0029264109     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.372753     Document Type: Article

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