Analysis of gain improvements through a pump reflector in Er3+-doped optical amplifiers in the presence of concentration quenching

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 346-348

  Nilsson, Johan ^a,b   Jaskorzynska, Bozena ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CALCULATIONS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUENCHING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; HOMOGENOUS UPCONVERSION; PAIR INDUCED QUENCHING; PUMP REFLECTOR; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATE;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0030106536     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.481112     Document Type: Article

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