Title :
Optimal pumping of erbium-doped-fibre optical amplifiers
Author :
Laming, R.I. ; Reekie, L. ; Payne, D.N. ; Scrivener, P.L. ; Fontana, F. ; Righetti, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
By choosing pump wavelengths which avoid excited-state absorption, efficient, high-gain, erbium-doped fibre amplifiers are possible. Practical pump wavelengths of 532 nm and 980 nm are identified as optimal, the latter giving a gain as high as 2.2 dB/mW of pump
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibres; optical pumping; solid lasers; 532 nm; 980 nm; Er doped fibre amplifiers; excited-state absorption; pump wavelengths;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton
