Low-noise and high-gain 1.58μm band Er3+-doped fibre amplifiers with cascade configurations

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1477-1479

  Ono, H ^a   Yamada, M ^a   Kanamori, T ^a   Ohishi, Y ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibre amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CASCADE CONFIGURATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031199934     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970957     Document Type: Article

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