Design of mid-infrared amplifiers based on fiber taper coupling to erbium-dopedmicrospherical resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7616-7629

  Mescia, Luciano ^a   Bia, Pietro ^a   De Sario, Marco ^a   Di Tommaso, Annalisa ^a   Prudenzano, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D NUMERICAL MODEL; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; COUPLED MODE THEORY; FIBER TAPER; ION-ION INTERACTION; MIDINFRARED; RARE EARTH DOPED; RATE EQUATIONS; SIGNAL BEAMS; SIMULATION MODEL; TAPER ANGLES; TAPERED FIBER;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

ERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERBIUM; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84859394501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007616     Document Type: Article

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