Effect of gain bandwidth on the amplification of ultrabroad bandwidth pulse in an erbium-doped nonlinear amplifying fibre loop mirror

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 114-121

  Lei, Dajun ^a   Fu, Xiquan ^a   Wen, Shuangchun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical fibre amplifier; Optical pulse amplifier; Optical pulse compression; Optical soliton

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL PULSE AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL SOLITONS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33847743910     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/1/019     Document Type: Article

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