Er3+-doped fluorophosphate glass fibre amplifier for WDM systems

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 1586-1587

  Ono, H ^a   Nakagawa, K ^a   Yamada, M ^a   Sudo, S ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibre amplifiers; Fluoride glasses

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; GLASS FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030214127     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961038     Document Type: Article

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