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
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