Ultrawide 75-nm 3-dB gain-band optical amplification with erbium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers and distributed Raman amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 516-518

  Masuda, Hiroji ^a   Kawai, Shingo ^a   Suzuki, Ken Ichi ^a   Aida, Kazuo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed Raman amplifier; Erbium doped fluoride fiber amplifer; Gain flattened amplifier; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wide band optical amplication

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; ERBIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GAIN FLATTENED AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 3643142781     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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