Noise penalty of highly saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers in analog links

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 749-751

  Urick, Vincent J ^a   Bucholtz, Frank ^a   Williams, Keith J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PASSIVE OPTICAL LOSS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33644647498     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871107     Document Type: Article

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