Signal excited-state absorption in the L-band EDFA: Simulation and measurements

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2796-2799

  Bolshtyansky, Maxim ^a   Mandelbaum, Idan ^a,b   Pan, Fred ^a  

^a JDS Uniphase   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium; Modeling; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTROSCOPY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER (EDFA); EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 26844435735     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.853145     Document Type: Article

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