High pumping-efficiency L-band erbium-doped fiber ASE source using double-pass bidirectional-pumping configuration

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-199

  Tsai, Szu Chi ^a   Tsai, Tseng Chien ^a   Law, Pi Cheng ^b   Chen, Yung Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source; Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Superfluorescent fiber source (SFS)

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; OPTICAL FILTERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SOURCE; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; SUPERFLUORESCENT FIBER SOURCE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037318774     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.806079     Document Type: Article

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