Gain and noise figure characterisation of a 68km long distributed erbium doped fibre amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 1800-1801

  Altuncu, A ^a,d   Siddiqui, A S ^a   Ellis, A D ^b   Newhouse, M A ^c   Antos, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^c Technology Group ^*  (United States)

^d DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fibre amplifiers; Fibre amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DISTRIBUTED ERBIUM DOPED FIBRE AMPLIFIER; GAIN COMPRESSION RATIO; NOISE FIGURE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; OPTICAL TUNABLE FILTER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3242819603     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961180     Document Type: Article

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