Upconversion assisted decay of population inversion in er-doped silica after delta-pulse excitation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 205-212

  Khoptyar, Dmitry ^a   Sergeyev, Sergey ^a,b   Jaskorzynska, Bozena ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Erbium; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical materials; Optical waveguide components

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; HEURISTIC METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER); SILICA; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

ERBIUM DOPED SILICA; HEURISTIC APPROXIMATION; HOMOGENOUS UPCONVERSION ASSISTED DECAY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 13444288193     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.839684     Document Type: Article

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