Inherent enhancement of gain flatness and achievement of broad gain bandwidth in erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-161

  Ryu, Uh Chan ^a,b   Oh, K ^a,b   Shin, Woojin ^a,b   Paek, U C ^a,b  

^a Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology ^*

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber (EDF); Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Fused taper fiber coupler; Gain flattening; WDM coupler; Wide band optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIER STRUCTURE; BROAD GAIN BANDWIDTH; COMPOSITE FIBER STRUCTURE; FUSED TAPER FIBER COUPLER; GAIN FLATNESS; INHERENT ENHANCEMENT; PUMP-SIGNAL COUPLERS; SILICA FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0036477569     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.980267     Document Type: Article

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