Experimental measurement of gain in erbium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier in the 850-nm signal band

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-217

  Sridhar, Balakrishnan ^b   Sunak, Harish R D ^a,b   Strauss, Benjamin R ^c   Bastien, Steven P ^c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c Optigain Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER);

ERBIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE LASER; SIGNAL BAND;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030080747     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.484245     Document Type: Article

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