Optical Gain Control of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers with a Saturable Absorber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 483-485

  Wang, Chia Chi ^a   Cowle, Gregory J ^a  

^a Science and Technology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation of gain error; Erbium doped fiber amplifier; Optical gain control; Saturable absorber; Spectral hole burning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000109304     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841260     Document Type: Article

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