Very flat gain erbium-doped fiber amplifier using samarium-doped fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1576-1577

  Srivastava, A K ^b   Zyskind, J L ^a,b   Evankow, J D ^c   Sulhoff, J W ^b   Sun, Y ^a,b   Mills, M A ^c  

^a IEEE

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; Flat gain; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SAMARIUM;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031341052     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.643267     Document Type: Article

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