• DocumentCode
    2678173
  • Title

    Progress towards a 1300 nm fibre amplifier

  • Author

    Hewak, D.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    36101
  • Firstpage
    42705
  • Lastpage
    42709
  • Abstract
    Candidates for a 1.3 micron fibre amplifier include praseodymium doped fluoride (PDFA) or a similar device based on chalcogenide glasses, both of which have demonstrated amplification though not yet at practical levels; neodymium doped fluoride glasses for which signal gain is possible but severely limited by competing transitions; and dysprosium doped chalcogenide glasses, from which only fluorescence has been demonstrated. In this presentation we review progress in these three variations of the ubiquitous 1300 nm optical fibre amplifier
  • Keywords
    optical transmitters; 1.3 mum; 1300 nm optical fibre amplifier; Dy-doped chalcogenide glass fibre lasers; Nd-doped fluoride fibre lasers; Pr-doped chalcogenide glass fibre lasers; Pr-doped fluoride fibre lasers; competing transitions; dysprosium doped chalcogenide glass fibre lasers; fluorescence; neodymium doped fluoride glass fibre lasers; praseodymium doped fluoride fibre lasers; review; signal gain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    New Developments in Optical Amplifiers (Ref. No. 1998/492), IEE Colloquium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/ic:19980920
  • Filename
    755104