On Crosstalk and Noise in an Optical Amplifier With Gain Clamping by Vertical Laser Field

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1914-1919

  Oksanen, Jani ^a   Tulkki, Jukka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Crosstalk; Gain clamping; Linear optical amplifier (LOA); Random gain; Shot noise

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CROSSTALK; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OSCILLATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

VERTICAL LASER FIELDS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0141638419     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.815493     Document Type: Article

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