Simple and accurate procedure for modeling erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers with high concentration

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 401-407

  Vermelho, M V D ^a   Peschel, Ulf ^a,b   Aitchison, J Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ERBIUM-DOPED WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS (EDWA);

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0033902458     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.827513     Document Type: Article

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