35-dB gain Tm-doped ZBLYAN fiber amplifier operating at 1.65 μm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 349-351

  Sakamoto, Tadashi ^b   Shimizu, Makoto ^a,b   Yamada, Makoto ^a,b   Kanamori, Terutoshi ^b   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a,b   Terunuma, Yukio ^b   Sudo, Shoichi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLADDING (COATING); IONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TERBIUM; THULIUM;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; LASER OSCILLATION; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION LINE MONITORING SYSTEM; RAMAN AMPLIFIER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030104496     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.481113     Document Type: Article

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