Praseodymium doped fibre amplifiers (PDFAs) pumped by monolithic master oscillator power amplifier (M-MOPA) laser diodes

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 343-345

  Sanders, S ^a   Dzurko, K ^a   Parke, R ^a   O'Brien, S ^a   Welch, D F ^a   Grubb, S G ^b   Nykolak, G ^b   Becker, P C ^b  

^a SDL INC   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre amplifiers; Optical pumping

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PRASEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

MONOLITHIC MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL RECEIVER PREAMPLIFICATION; PRASEODYMIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN LEVEL;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030085767     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960277     Document Type: Article

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