Future directions in 980-nm pump lasers: submarine deployment to low-cost watt-class terrestrial pumps

V. Gulgazov; Gordon S. Jackson; Kevin M. Lascola; Jo S. Major Jr.; Ross Parke; Tim Richard; Victor V. Rossin; Kai Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.361082

28 September 1999 Future directions in 980-nm pump lasers: submarine deployment to low-cost watt-class terrestrial pumps

V. Gulgazov, Gordon S. Jackson, Kevin M. Lascola, Jo S. Major Jr., Ross Parke, Tim Richard, Victor V. Rossin, Kai Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 10295, Reliability of Optical Fibers and Optical Fiber Systems: A Critical Review; 1029509 (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361082
Event: Photonics East '99, 1999, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The demands of global bandwidth and distribution are rising rapidly as Internet usage grows. This fundamentally means that more photons are flowing within optical cables. While transmitting sources launches some optical power, the majority of the optical power that is present within modem telecommunication systems originates from optical amplifiers. In addition, modem optical amplifiers offer flat optical gain over broad wavelength bands, thus making possible dense wavelength de-multiplexing (DWDM) systems. Optical amplifier performance, and by extension the performance of the laser pumps that drive them, is central to the future growth of both optical transmission and distribution systems.

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V. Gulgazov, Gordon S. Jackson, Kevin M. Lascola, Jo S. Major Jr., Ross Parke, Tim Richard, Victor V. Rossin, and Kai Zhang "Future directions in 980-nm pump lasers: submarine deployment to low-cost watt-class terrestrial pumps", Proc. SPIE 10295, Reliability of Optical Fibers and Optical Fiber Systems: A Critical Review, 1029509 (28 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.361082

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