Efficient Erbium-doped waveguide amplifier insensitive to power fluctuations

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10307-10312

  Ennser, Karin ^a,b   Taccheo, Stefano ^b   Rogowski, Tomasz ^c   Shmulovich, Joe ^d  

^a CNIT Nat'l Laboratory of Photonic Networks   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^d Inplane Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GAIN FLATNESS; LASER POWER LEAKING; OUTPUT POWER VARIATION; WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33750701441     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010307     Document Type: Article

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