Gain Spectrum Equalization of All-Optical Gain-Clamped Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 176-178

  Takushima, Yuichi ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033080314     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.740695     Document Type: Article

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