Rayleigh Scattering Effect on the Gain Efficiency and Noise of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 468-471

  Zervas, Michael N ^a   Laming, Richard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PUMPING (LASER); RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GAIN EFFICIENCY; RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0029273665     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.364401     Document Type: Article

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