Theoretical study of the gain equalization of a stabilized gain EDFA for WDM applications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 766-770

  Lebref, Ronan ^a   Landousies, Bernard ^a   Georges, Thierry ^a   Delevaque, Eric ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Erbium devices; Filtering; Gain control; Modeling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; GAIN EQUALIZATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0031143618     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.580810     Document Type: Article

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