Long-wavelength EDFA gain enhancement through 1550 nm band signal injection

Optics Communications

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-129

  Mahdi, M A ^a   Mahamd Adikan, F R ^a   Poopalan, P ^a   Selvakennedy, S ^a   Chan, W Y ^a   Ahmad, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GAIN ENHANCEMENT; INJECTED SIGNAL; NOISE FIGURE PENALTY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0343081693     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00537-X     Document Type: Article

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