Title :
Noise in erbium-doped fibre amplifiers
Author :
Laming, R.I. ; Morkel, P.R. ; Payne, D.N. ; Reekie, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
Noise mechanisms in an erbium fibre amplifier are experimentally characterised. System advantages of 13 dB and 7 dB are predicted when used as a power- or pre-amplifier respectively
Keywords :
noise; optical fibres; 13 dB; 7 dB; Er doped fibre; fibre amplifiers; noise; power-amplifier; pre-amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1988. (ECOC 88). Fourteenth European Conference on (Conf. Publ. No.292)
Conference_Location :
Brighton
