S-Band Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers with a Multistage Configuration - Design, Characterization, and Gain Tilt Compensation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2240-2246

  Ono, Hirotaka ^a   Yamada, Makoto ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erbium; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

GAIN TILT COMPENSATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0142258140     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.817698     Document Type: Article

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