Title :
Travelling-wave optical amplifier at 1.3¿m
Author :
Eisenstein, Gadi ; Johnson, Brett C. ; Raybon, G.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, USA
Abstract :
We describe a travelling-wave optical amplifier operating at a wavelength near 1.3 ¿m. We demonstrate a fibre-amplifier-fibre gain of 131 dB with a gain variation of 13.1 dB. The fibre-amplifier coupling loss is 4.5 dB/interface and the amplifier facet mean reflectivity is 0.04%.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; semiconductor junction lasers; 1.3 micron; 13.1 dB; 4.5 dB; fibre-amplifier-fibre gain; travelling-wave optical amplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870715
