High-power Er-Yb-doped fiber amplifier with multichannel gain flatness within 0.2 dB over 14 nm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1148-1150

  Park, Namkyoo ^a,b   Wysocki, Paul ^a,b   Pedrazzani, Rence ^a,b   Grubb, Steve ^a,b   DiGiovanni, David ^a,b   Walker, Ken ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; HIGH POWER LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; YTTERBIUM;

GAIN SHAPING FILTER; MULTICHANNEL GAIN FLATNESS; NOISE FIGURE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030244257     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.531818     Document Type: Article

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