Development of an efficient praseodymium-doped fiber amplifier

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1332-1339

  Nishida, Yoshiki ^a   Yamada, Makoto ^a   Kanamori, Terutoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Kenji ^a   Temmyo, Jiro ^a   Sudo, Shoichi ^a   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifier; Optical fiber materials; Optical fibers; Praseodymium materials devices

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; PRASEODYMIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PRASEODYMIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIERS (PDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032137607     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.704316     Document Type: Article

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