Abstract
We demonstrate that simultaneously pumping a thulium-doped tellurite fiber amplifier with 800nm and 1064nm significantly increases the achievable gain. A gain of 26dB and noise figure less than 4dB were obtained with a 1.5m doped fiber length.
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