Gain control in EDFA's by pump compensation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1313-1315

  Tancevski L ^a   Rusch, L A ^b   Bononi, A ^c  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doped fiber amplifiers; Gain compensation; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); GAIN COMPENSATION; PUMP COMPENSATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032163282     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.705627     Document Type: Article

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