Transient gain control in EDFA's by dual-cavity optical automatic gain control

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1381-1383

  Liu, Yongqian ^a   Krol, Mark F ^a  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAIN CONTROL;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING (SHB);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033221933     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.803052     Document Type: Article

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