• DocumentCode
    1622472
  • Title

    Simple gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier with a wide dynamic range

  • Author

    Nilsson, J. ; Loh, W.H. ; Hwang, S.T. ; de Sandro, J.P. ; Kim, S.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    129
  • Lastpage
    130
  • Abstract
    In summary, we have demonstrated a hybrid Er-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) with a flat gain over a dynamic range of 15 dB, with a minimum of optical components. This results from careful choices of the spectra and lengths of the constituent Er-doped fibres (EDF)s
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; laser noise; constituent Er-doped fibre lengths; dynamic range; flat gain; gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier; hybrid Er-doped fibre amplifier; optical components; spectra; wide dynamic range; Absorption; Dynamic range; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Filtering; Gain; Light sources; Optical distortion; Passive filters; Shape; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-480-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.1997.719753
  • Filename
    719753