Design of an optical fiber amplifier with multiple serial pumping for space communications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3110, Issue , 1997, Pages 392-399

  Giggenbach, Dirk ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double clad fiber; Fiber amplifier; Multimode Y coupler; Optical space communications

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMMUNICATION; FIBERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PUMPS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER; EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; FREE SPACES; LASER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-MODE CORES; MULTIMODE Y-COUPLER; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; PUMP LIGHTS; SIGNAL LIGHTS; SINGLE MODES; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; SPACE ENVIRONMENTS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0343892609     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.281358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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