Gain-flattened Er 3+-doped fiber amplifier for a WDM signal in the 1.57-1.60-μm wavelength region

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 596-598

  Ono, Hirotaka ^a,b   Yamada, Makoto ^a,b   Ohishi, Yasutake ^a,b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b IEEE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erbium materials devices; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber materials; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICA;

ERBIUM DOPED SILICA BASED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031140754     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.588134     Document Type: Article

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