Gain-shifted dual-wavelength-pumped thulium-doped fiber amplifier for WDM signals in the 1.48-1.51-μm wavelength region

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-33

  Kasamatsu, Tadashi ^a   Yano, Yutaka ^a   Ono, Takashi ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; THULIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0035083125     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.903211     Document Type: Article

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