Modeling the saturation induced by broad-band pulses amplified in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1235-1237

  Horowitz, Moshe ^a,b   Menyuk, Curtis R ^b   Keren, Shay ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); OPTICAL SATURATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033204914     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.789702     Document Type: Article

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