Actively gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier over 35 nm by using all-fiber acoustooptic tunable filters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 790-792

  Kim, Hyo Sang ^a   Yun, Seok Hyun ^a   Kim, Hyang Kyun ^b   Park, Namkyoo ^c   Kim, Byoung Yoon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

ALL FIBER ACOUSTOOPTICAL TUNABLE FILTERS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032098954     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681485     Document Type: Article

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