Multiwatts narrow linewidth fiber raman amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 10927-10932

  Feng, Yan ^a   Taylor, Luke ^a   Calia, Domenico Bonaccini ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 51549098241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010927     Document Type: Article

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