PDL-compensated mechanically induced long-period grating for EDFA gain flattening

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 447-451

  Cho, Joon Yong ^a   Lee, Kyung Shik ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); Gain flattening; Long period gratings; PDL compensation; Polarization dependent loss (PDL)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ERROR COMPENSATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER (EDFA); GAIN FLATTENING; LONG-PERIOD GRATINGS (LPG); PDL COMPENSATION; POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSS (PDL);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 8644227669     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030490510270     Document Type: Article

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