Highly flat super-continuum generation from 2 ps pulses using 1 km-long erbium-doped fibre amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 1642-1643

  Ozeki, Y ^a   Taira, K ^a   Aiso, K ^b   Takushima, Y ^a   Kikuchi, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL GAIN; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037028278     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20021135     Document Type: Article

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