Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier with 54 dB Gain and 3.1 dB Noise Figure

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 1345-1347

  Laming, Richard I ^a   Zervas, Michael N ^a   Payne, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000339997     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.180571     Document Type: Article

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