Pr 3+-doped fluoride fiber amplifier module pumped by a fiber coupled master oscillator/power amplifier laser diode

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 321-323

  Yamada, Makoto ^a,b   Kanamori, Terutoshi ^b   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a,b   Shimizu, Makoto ^b   Terunuma, Yukio ^b   Sato, Seiichiro ^c   Sudo, Shoichi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser excitation; Optical amplifier; Optical fiber amplifier; Optical fiber materials; Praseodymium materials devices; Pumps; Rare earth materials devices

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PRASEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

LASER EXCITATION; PRASEODYMIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIERS; REFLECTION SPLICING; SIGNAL GAIN;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031103463     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.556060     Document Type: Article

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