Broad-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier flattened beyond 40 nm using long-period grating filter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1343-1345

  Wysocki, Paul F ^b   Judkins, Justin B ^b   Espindola, Rolando P ^b   Andrejco, Matthew ^b   Vengsarkar, Ashish M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SILICA;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031258052     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623257     Document Type: Article

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