• DocumentCode
    1495815
  • Title

    Noise figure improvement of optical gain clamped fibre amplifier by mid-point band reject filter for lasing light

  • Author

    Kobayashi, Masato

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Syst. Lab., Hitachi Cable Ltd., Ibaraki
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    3/18/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    486
  • Lastpage
    488
  • Abstract
    A new configuration for improving the noise performance of an optical gain clamped erbium-doped fibre amplifier is proposed. The effect is also demonstrated by experimentally comparing the noise figure of the proposed configuration to that of the previously proposed configuration
  • Keywords
    band-stop filters; erbium; laser feedback; laser noise; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre filters; EDFA; Er-doped fibre amplifier; mid-point band reject filter; noise figure improvement; optical gain clamped fibre amplifier;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19990312
  • Filename
    756410