S-Band thulium-doped fiber amplifier employing high thulium concentration doping technique

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3842-3848

  Aozasa, Shinichi ^a   Masuda, Hiroji ^a,b   Shimizu, Makoto ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Glass; Ions; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Thulium; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTIMIZATION; THULIUM; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER LENGTH; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIERS; PUMP POWER RATIO; THULIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33750206658     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.881480     Document Type: Article

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