Title :
Beat phenomena in cascaded all optical gain-clamped erbium-doped fibre amplifiers
Author :
Chen, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Fan, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fDate :
6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Analytical expressions and the basic rules of beat phenomena in cascaded gain-clamped EDFAs with ring cavity lasing structures during channel addition/drop are obtained and verified experimentally. Methods to suppress beat phenomena are also proposed
Keywords :
erbium; laser theory; optical fibre amplifiers; ring lasers; analytical expressions; beat phenomena; cascaded all optical gain-clamped erbium-doped fibre amplifiers; cascaded gain-clamped EDFA; channel addition/drop; ring cavity lasing structures;
Journal_Title :
Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -
DOI :
10.1049/ip-opt:20010518
