Towards the short-wavelength limit lasing at 1450 nm over4I 13/2 → 4I15/2 transition in silica-based erbium-doped fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16448-16456

  Chen, Nan Kuang ^a   Hung, Chi Ming ^b   Chi, Sien ^b,c   Lai, Yinchieh ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICA;

LASING WAVELENGTH; STIMULATED EMISSIONS; TRANSITION RATES;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 37249016127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016448     Document Type: Article

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