Design of rare-earth-doped microspheres

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 422-424

  Mescia, Luciano ^a   Prudenzano, Francesco ^a   De Sario, Marco ^a   Palmisano, Tommaso ^a   Ferrari, Maurizio ^b   Righini, Giancarlo C ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b CSMFO Laboratory   (Italy)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active microsphere; Finite difference time domain (fdtd) method; Rare earth; Rate equations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; DENSITY MATRIX MODEL; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; RATE EQUATIONS; SILICA FIBERS; SILICA MICROSPHERES; WAVELENGTH DISPERSION; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

AMPLIFICATION; DESIGN; ERBIUM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROSPHERES; RARE EARTHS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955455588     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2039932     Document Type: Article

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