Effects of ion-clusters on the intensity noise of heavily erbium-doped fiber lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 803-805

  An, H L ^a,b   Pun, E Y B ^a   Lin, X Z ^b   Liu An, H D ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ERBIUM; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASERS; INTENSITY NOISE; UP-CONVERSION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032683842     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.769713     Document Type: Article

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