Low-noise intelligent cladding-pumped L-band EDFA

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 909-911

  Yla Jarkko K H ^a   Codemard, C ^b   Singleton, J ^a   Turner, P W ^a   Godfrey, I ^a   Alam, S U ^a   Nilsson, J ^a,b   Sahu, J K ^a,b   Grudinin, A B ^b  

^a Southampton Photonics Inc   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs); Gain clamping; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) systems

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); DIODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; NOISE ABATEMENT; PUMPING (LASER); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GAIN CLAMPING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0038002415     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.813433     Document Type: Article

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