Low-cost bidirectional optical amplifier using a unidirectional Er-doped fiber amplifier and a fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 76-78

  Lee, Seung Tak ^a   Chae, Chang Joon ^b  

^a KT Cooperation   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0035082232     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.903226     Document Type: Article

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