Design of gain-clamped doped-fiber amplifiers for optimal dynamic performance

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1229-1240

  Bononi, Alberto ^a,b,c,d,e   Barbieri, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Hirst Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PUMPING (LASER); WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; GAIN CLAMPING; LASER FLUX; SIGNAL GAIN; SMALL SIGNAL RESPONSE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032679867     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.774262     Document Type: Article

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