Ultra-wideband Amplification Technologies for Optical Fiber Amplifiers

NTT Technical Review

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 80-84

  Yamada, Makoto ^a   Shimizu, Makoto ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); GAIN COEFFICIENTS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND AMPLIFICATION;

BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2342586181     PISSN: 13483447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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