This book covers main fiber lasers and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silicia and flourozirconate fibers. It describes the erbium-doped fiber amplifier and its role as foundational in optical communication systems.
This book covers main fiber lasers and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silicia and flourozirconate fibers. It describes the erbium-doped fiber amplifier and its role as foundational in optical communication systems.
Michel Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. His research activities center mostly on advanced fiber-based sensors, in particular fiber optic gyroscopes, fiber hydrophones and microphones, and strain sensors.
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Chapter 1: Rare Earth Doped Silica Fiber Fabrication Chapter 2: Optical and Electronic Properties of Rare Earth Ions in Glasses Chapter 3: Basics of Continuous Wave Silica Fiber Lasers Chapter 4: Visible Fluoride Fiber Lasers Chapter 5: Single Frequency Fiber Lasers Chapter 7: Q switched Fiber Lasers Chapter 8: Specialty Large Core Fibers For Power Scaling Chapter 9: High Power Single Mode Ytterbium Doped Fiber Lasers Chapter 10: Mode Locked Fiber Lasers Chapter 11: Thulium Doped Mode Locked Fiber Lasers at 2 µm Chapter 12: Rare Earth Doped Infrared Transmitting Glass Fibers Chapter 13: Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Basic Physics and Characteristics Chapter 14: Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Recent Advances Chapter 15: Few Mode Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers Chapter 16: High Performance Ultrashort Pulse Fiber Lasers
