Gain saturation and nonlinear effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier/discrete compensating Raman amplifier hybrid fiber amplifiers in the C-band

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 346-349

  Chi, Ronghua ^a   Lu, Kecheng ^a   Dong, Xiaoyi ^a   Chen, Wenzhao ^b   Yang, Guangming ^b   Liu, Zhaobing ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shenzhen NARI Technologies Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Brillouin stokes; Gain saturation; Hybrid fiber amplifiers; Pump depletion; Stimulated brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BRILLOUIN STOKES; DISCRETE COMPENSATING RAMAN AMPLIFIER; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; GAIN SATURATION; NONLINEAR EFFECT; PUMP DEPLETION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 1942520225     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1635832     Document Type: Article

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