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Efficient backward and forward pumping CW Raman amplification for InGaAsP laser light in silica fibres

Yasuhiro Aoki, S. Kishida, H. Honmou, Kunihiko Washio, M. Sugimoto

Electronics Letters · 1983 · 65 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

By pumping a small-core single-mode silica fibre with a 1.32 μm CW Nd:YAG laser, continuous-wave Raman amplification of InGaAsP laser diode light, with unsaturated gain as high as 21 dB, has been obtained in both backward as well as forward pumping configurations.

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