Title :
Measurement of polarisation-dependent gain in EDFAs against input degree of polarisation and gain compression
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis
fDate :
3/2/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The dependence of polarisation dependent gain (PDG) in erbium doped fibre amplifiers on both the degree of polarisation (DOP) of the input signal and gain compression is measured for the first time. PDG is found to depend quadratically on the input DOP
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser variables measurement; optical fibre polarisation; EDFA; Er doped fibre amplifiers; degree of polarisation; gain compression; polarisation-dependent gain;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950265
