A new design approach to fiber DFB lasers with improved efficiency

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 711-720

  Yelen, Kuthan ^a   Hickey, Louise M B ^b   Zervas, Mikhail N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers; Erbium; Gratings; Optical fiber lasers; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM-YTTERBIUM CO-DOPED FIBER; PUMP-TO-SIGNAL CONVERSION RATIO;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 3042595562     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.828257     Document Type: Article

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