Observation of strongly nonquadratic homogeneous upconversion in Er3+-doped silica fibers and reevaluation of the degree of clustering

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1741-1749

  Philipsen, Jacob L ^a   Broeng, J ^a   Bjarklev, A ^a   Helmfrid, Sten ^b   Bremberg, Dan ^b   Jaskorzynska, B ^b   Palsdottir B ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ERBIUM; FLUORESCENCE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICA;

FLUORESCENCE DECAY; SILICA FIBERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0033332545     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.798101     Document Type: Article

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