Passive gain-equalized wide-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier using samarium-doped fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 879-881

  Liaw, Shien Kuei ^a   Chen, Yung Kuang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERBIUM; FABRICATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL FIBERS; SAMARIUM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; PASSIVE GAIN EQUALIZATION TECHNIQUE; SAMARIUM DOPED FIBER; SOLUTION SOAKING TECHNIQUES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030193464     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.502257     Document Type: Article

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