DocumentCode
1302600
Title
Noise figure for erbium-doped optical fibre amplifiers
Author
Olshansky, R.
Author_Institution
GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA
Volume
24
Issue
22
fYear
1988
fDate
10/27/1988 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1363
Lastpage
1365
Abstract
A rate equation model is used to calculate the excess noise figure for erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. It is shown that erbium amplifiers can operate with high gain and can have noise figures only 0.2 dB above the quantum limit
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical fibres; Er; excess noise; gain; noise figures; optical fibre amplifiers; quantum limit; rate equation model;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
Filename
82442
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