Efficiency optimization of high-power, Er3+-Yb3+-codoped fiber amplifiers for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1189-1197

  Yahel, Eldad ^a   Hardy, Amos ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; POSITIVE IONS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; YTTERBIUM;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0038305461     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001189     Document Type: Article

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