Strongly pumped fiber lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1570-1577

  Kelson, Ido ^b   Hardy, Amos A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber theory; Optical fiber Users; Optical fibers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER);

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; RATE EQUATION MODELS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032166358     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.709573     Document Type: Article

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