IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting (LEOS)

Inhomogeneity in erbium doped silica and fluoride fibers

Ashutosh K. Srivastava, James W. Sulhoff, C. Wolf, Yufa Sun, J.L. Zyskind

Published Nov 22, 2002• 0 citations

Abstract

In this paper we present the first report of room temperature spectral hole burning (SHB) measurements for wavelengths near 1530 nm and the first report on the comparison of SHB measurements in Er-doped fiber amplifiers.

DOI: 10.1109/leos.1997.645438

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