Excited-state absorption and ion pairs as sources of nonlinear losses in heavily doped erbium silica fiber and erbium fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8498-8507

  Kir’yanov, Alexander V ^a   Barmenkov, Yury O ^a   Il’ichev, Nikolay N ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICA;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE PUMPING; ERBIUM ION PAIRS (IP); EXCITED-STATE ABSORPTION (ESA); NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENT;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 26844488318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008498     Document Type: Article

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