High-power Nd-doped fiber amplifier for coherent intersatellite links

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1419-1423

  Rochat, Etienne ^a   Haroud, Karim ^a   Dändliker, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE LINKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENT; PHASE NOISE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033335102     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.792556     Document Type: Article

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