Fluoride-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier with inherently flat gain spectrum

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 882-884

  Yamada, Makoto ^a,b   Kanamori, Terutoshi ^b   Terunuma, Yukio ^b   Oikawa, Kiyoshi ^b   Shimizu, Makoto ^a,b   Sudo, Shoichi ^a,b   Sagawa, Kouichi ^c  

^a IEEE

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EQUALIZERS; ERBIUM; FLUORINE; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FILTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLUORIDE BASED ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; GAIN EQUALIZER; GAIN SPECTRUM; OPTICAL ISOLATOR;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030195594     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.502258     Document Type: Article

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