• DocumentCode
    899352
  • Title

    Inhomogeneously broadened fiber-amplifier cascade for wavelength-multiplexed systems

  • Author

    Goldstein, E.L. ; da Silva, V. ; Eskildsen, L. ; Andrejco, M. ; Silberberg, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    543
  • Lastpage
    545
  • Abstract
    The authors observe little or no accumulation of optical-power variations among wavelength-multiplexed signals as they traverse successive stages of a cooled, inhomogeneously broadened, erbium-doped fiber-amplifier cascade. The cascade instead exhibits separate automatic power regulation of each channel, decoupled from other channels, without the use of servo loops.<>
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; optical links; spectral line breadth; wavelength division multiplexing; automatic power regulation; cooled; decoupled channels; erbium-doped fiber-amplifier; fiber-amplifier cascade; inhomogeneously broadened; wavelength-multiplexed systems; Doped fiber amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.215275
  • Filename
    215275