Electronics Letters · 1988 · 97 citations · 3 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber OpticsNoiseNoise MeasurementOptical AmplifiersOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersErbium-doped Fiber AmplifiersExcess NoiseNoise FigureNoise Figure AnalysisNoise In AmplifiersOptical Amplifier ModelingOptical NoiseRare-earth-doped Amplifiers
A rate equation model is used to calculate the excess noise figure for erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. It is shown that erbium amplifiers can operate with high gain and can have noise figures only 0.2 dB above the quantum limit.
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Low-noise erbium-doped fibre amplifier operating at 1.54μm
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High-gain erbium-doped traveling-wave fiber amplifier
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