Sub-microsecond pulsed pumping as a means of suppressing amplified spontaneous emission in tandem pumped fiber amplifiers

We propose a new tandem pumping scheme in three-level rare-earth doped optical fibers where energy storage in a pump fiber laser enables much shorter (~500 ns) pump pulses than is possible with pulsed diode laser pumping. This has the effect of reducing the time during which the final amplifier has...

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Main Authors: Malinowski, Andrew (Author), Price, Jonathan (Author), Zervas, Michael (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015-12.
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