Pump-induced nonlinear refractive-index change in erbium- and ytterbium-doped fibers: Theory and experiment

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1261-1263

  Garcia, Hernando ^a   Johnson, Anthony M ^b   Oguama, Ferdinand A ^c   Trivedi, Sudhir ^d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRIMROSE CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MATRIX; PUMP BEAMS; RATE EQUATION; TRANSITION RATE;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ERBIUM; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 20444505952     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001261     Document Type: Article

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