Abstract
Rare earth-doped fiber amplifiers have been extensively developed for their applications to optical telecommunication systems (Desurvire, 1994). The technology is already mature for practical implementations. Fiber lasers using rare earth-doped fiber amplifiers have also been studied mainly for the possibility of using them as short pulse, wavelength tunable or soliton sources for optical communications (Duling, 1995). The fiber amplifier provides not only high gain but also a broad gain spectrum of tens of nanometers ideal for broadband wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems (Wysocki et al., 1994). This chapter develops the discussions of Chapter 3 and deals with another important application area of fiber amplifiers that takes advantage of their unique characteristics.
Keywords
- Fiber Laser
- Fiber Bragg Grating
- Amplify Spontaneous Emission
- Stimulate Brillouin Scattering
- Fiber Amplifier
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Kim, B.Y. (1998). Fiber lasers in optical sensors. In: Grattan, K.T.V., Meggitt, B.T. (eds) Optical Fiber Sensor Technology. Optoelectronics, Imaging and Sensing, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5787-6_3
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