Multimode fiber amplifier with tunable modal gain using a reconfigurable multimode pump

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16601-16611

  Bai, Neng ^a,b   Ip, Ezra ^b   Wang, Ting ^b   Li, Guifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; MULTIMODE FIBERS; PUMPS;

DYNAMIC RANGE; ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; KEY ELEMENTS; LONG HAUL; MACRO-BENDING LOSS; MODAL GAIN; MODE COUPLING; MULTIMODES; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; RE-CONFIGURABLE;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 80051757211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016601     Document Type: Article

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