Polarization properties of a reflective fiber amplifier employing a circulator and a Faraday rotator mirror

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 385-389

  Yamashita, Shinji ^a,d   Hotate, Kazuo ^b,d   Ito, Masataka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; STABILITY; WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS;

FARADAY ROTATOR MIRROR; REFLECTIVE FIBER AMPLIFIER; SINGLE MODE ERBIUM DOPED FIBER; STATE OF POLARIZATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030108519     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.485597     Document Type: Article

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