Optimum Pumping Scheme of Dual-Stage Triple-Pass Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 419-421

  Mahdi, M A ^a   Khairi, K A ^a   Bouzid, B ^a   Abdullah, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Erbium; Optical amplifiers; Optical communication; Optical pumping; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DOUBLE-PASS AMPLIFICATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 1442264034     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.821059     Document Type: Article

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