Low-noise erbium-doped fibre amplifier operating at 1.54μm

Electronics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 1987, Pages 1026-1028

  Mears, R J ^a,b   Reekie, L ^a   Jauncey, I M ^a   Payne, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Optical fibres

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM AND ALLOYS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BIT RATE; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER; FIBER AMPLIFIER; HIGH GAIN AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH;

LIGHT;

EID: 0023418090     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19870719     Document Type: Article

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