Recent Progress in Thulium Doped Fiber Amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4990, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Gomes, A S L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical frequency domain reflectometry; S band amplifiers; Thulium doped fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFLECTOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THULIUM;

S-BAND AMPLIFIERS; THULIUM SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0242609181     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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