High gain efficiency amplifier based on an erbium doped aluminosilicate holey fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3452-3458

  Furusawa, K ^a   Kogure, T ^b   Monro, T M ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; GLASS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ERBIUM DOPED HOLEY FIBERS (EDHF); FIBER DESIGN; HOLEY FIBER TECHNOLOGY;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 4644371128     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003452     Document Type: Article

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