Record-efficient, resonantly-pumped, Er-doped singlemode fibre amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 400-401

  Dubinskii, M ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Ter Mikirtychev, V ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NovaWave Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITEDS; ER-DOPED; FIBRE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE FREQUENCIES; SINGLE-MODE FIBRES;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM;

EID: 64549120282     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.0505     Document Type: Article

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