All-Optical Gain-Clamped Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier with Improved Noise Figure and Freedom from Relaxation Oscillation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-86

  Ahn, Joon Tae ^a   Kim, Kyong Hon ^b  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INTENSITY CONTROL;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0346076682     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818906     Document Type: Article

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