Title :
An erbium-doped fibre amplifier with widely variable gain employing integrated components on a planar lightwave circuit
Author :
Ono, Hirotaka ; Watanabe, Toshio ; Suzuki, Kenya ; Mori, Atsushi ; Takahashi, Tetsuo ; Sakamoto, Tadashi
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
A 24 dB gain-range variable gain erbium-doped fibre amplifier with a 1.2 dB noise figure variation is demonstrated employing thermo-optic switches, variable optical attenuators, and pump/signal multiplexers integrated on a single planar lightwave circuit.
Keywords :
amplifiers; doping; erbium; multiplexing equipment; optical attenuators; optical switches; thermo-optical devices; Er; erbium-doped fibre amplifier; gain 24 dB; noise figure 1.2 dB; planar lightwave circuit; pump-signal multiplexers; thermo-optic switches; variable optical attenuators; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain; Noise measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
