Compact low cost Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped fibre amplifiers pumped by 827 nm laser diode

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 1812-1813

  Chen, Z J ^a   Minelly, J D ^a   Gu, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Epsilon House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAIN COEFFICIENT; SIGNAL GAIN;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3242821375     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961189     Document Type: Article

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