Gain distribution measurement of an erbium-doped silica-based waveguide amplifier using a complex OLCR

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1102-1103

  Takada, Kazumasa ^a,b   Oguma, Manabu ^b   Yamada, Hiroaki ^b   Mitachi, Seiko ^a,b   Golling, Matthias ^c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Optical planar waveguides; OTDR

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ERBIUM; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTOMETERS; SILICA;

OPTICAL LOW COHERENCE REFLECTOMETER (OLCR);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031207730     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.605514     Document Type: Article

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