Cladding-pumped erbium-doped multicore fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20191-20200

  Abedin, K S ^a   Taunay, T F ^a   Fishteyn, M ^a   DiGiovanni, D J ^a   Supradeepa, V R ^a   Fini, J M ^a   Yan, M F ^a   Zhu, B ^a   Monberg, E M ^a   Dimarcello, F V ^a  

^a OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

ERBIUM DOPED; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE FIBER; PEAK GAIN;

OPTICS;

ERBIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERBIUM; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 84865734710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020191     Document Type: Article

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