DocumentCode
2156763
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
fYear
2011
fDate
18-22 Sept. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Geneva
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1918-9
Type
conf
Filename
6065889
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