Link-Control Gain Clamping for a Cascaded EDFAs Link Using Differential ASE Monitor

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1334-1336

  Yoon, Hosung ^a   Park, Jachyoung ^a   Ahn, Seong Joon ^b   Park, Namkyoo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; Gain control; Power transients; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011792528     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883821     Document Type: Article

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