Thulium-Doped Tellurite Fiber Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 777-779

  Taylor, E R M ^a   Ng, L N ^a   Nilsson, J ^a   Caponi, R ^b   Pagano, A ^b   Potenza, M ^b   Sordo, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; S band; Tm3+ doped glass

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GLASS; GROUND STATE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; THULIUM; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

S-BAND; TM3+-DOPED GLASS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 1642618395     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823733     Document Type: Article

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