Gain and noise performance of fibre amplifiers operating in new pump configurations

V.C. Lauridsen, Reza Tadayoni, Anders Bjarklev, J.H. Povlsen, B. Pedersen

Electronics Letters · 1991 · 22 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

New configurations of erbium-doped fibre amplifiers have been investigated for the 0.98 μm and 1.48 μm pump wave-lengths. A doubling of the gain coefficient has been predicted for reflective type amplifiers at the cost of a noise figure increase of 1.5 dB.

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