80 nm ultra-wideband erbium-doped silica fibre amplifier

Yan Sun, J.W. Sulhoff, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, J.L. Zyskind, T.A. Strasser, J. R. Pedrazzani, C. Wolf, Junhe Zhou, Justin B. Judkins, R.P. Espindola,

Electronics Letters · 1997 · 124 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The authors demonstrate a two band architecture for an ultra-wideband erbium-doped silica fibre amplifier with a record optical bandwidth of 80 nm. To obtain a low noise figure and high output power, the two bands share a common first gain section and have distinct second gain sections.

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