Gain Flatness Comparison Between Erbium-Doped Fluoride and Silica Fiber Amplifiers With Wavelength-Multiplexed Signals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 509-512

  Ronarc'h D ^b   Sorel, Y ^b   Guibert, M ^b   Kerdiles, J F ^b   Semenkoff, M ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICA;

ERBIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIERS; ERBIUM DOPED SILICA FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GAIN FLATNESS COMPARISON; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED SIGNALS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0028418299     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.281811     Document Type: Article

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