Suppression of dynamic cross saturation in cascades of overpumped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1036-1038

  Karasek M ^a   Willems, F W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; Optical networks; Power transients; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032122682     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681309     Document Type: Article

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