80 nm spectrally flattened, high power erbium amplified spontaneous emission fibre source

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 1263-1265

  Espindola, R P ^a   Ales, G ^a   Park, J ^a   Strasser, T A ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0034229916     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000889     Document Type: Article

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