Proposal for an Er3+-doped chalcogenide glass fiber upconversion laser operating at 980 nm and pumped at 1480 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1104-1106

  Ye, C C ^a,b   Hempstead, M ^a,c   Hewak, D W ^a   Payne, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Corning Inc SP DV 01 6 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide glasses; Erbium materials devices; Modeling; Optical fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FLUORESCENCE; GLASS FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHALCOGENIDE GLASSES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031210421     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.605515     Document Type: Article

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