Title : 
Analysis of fibre background loss influence on EDFA gain dynamics
         
        
            Author : 
Mazzali, C. ; Fragnito, H.L.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
UNICAM-IFGW-DEQ, Sao Paulo, Brazil
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We observe a non-monotonic transient response of erbium doped fibre amplifiers operating near transparency condition and demonstrate, by experiments and numerical simulations, that this effect is due to the background loss
         
        
            Keywords : 
erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre theory; transient response; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA gain dynamics; Er-doped fibre amplifier; background loss; erbium doped fibre amplifiers; fibre background loss influence; near transparency condition; nonmonotonic transient response; numerical simulations; Displays; Distributed amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Power amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Madrid
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
84-89900-14-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ECOC.1998.732678