Performance of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers

Introduction

The field of rare-earth-doped fibre lasers and amplifiers has expanded rapidly in recent years and there are now numerous groups working actively in the area. A variety of glass hosts, dopants and pump sources have been used, with the goal of achieving low-threshold, diode-laser-pumped operation of fibre lasers and amplifiers, particularly those operating in either the second or third telecommunication windows.

35th Micro-Optics Meeting Tokyo Japan 15-16 Feb (1990)

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