A numerical study of erbium doped active LiNbO 3 waveguides by the beam propagation method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2294-2300

  Caccavale, Federico ^a,c   Segato, Francesco ^a   Mansour, Ibrahim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation; Erbium materials devices; Numerical analysis; Optical amplifiers; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE VECTORIAL BEAM PROPAGATION (ABPM);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031337012     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.643559     Document Type: Article

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