• DocumentCode
    1230816
  • Title

    Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers: linear approximations

  • Author

    Habbab, I.M.I. ; Saleh, A.A.M. ; Runge, P.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    1/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    33
  • Lastpage
    36
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we show that there is a simple linear model for an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. Specifically, we show that the amplifier gain, raised to a wavelength-dependent power, is strongly linear with respect to the amplifier-induced increase in signal power
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; erbium; fibre lasers; laser theory; amplifier gain; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; linear approximations; signal power; simple linear model; strongly linear; wavelength-dependent power; Absorption; Equations; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain measurement; Linear approximation; Power amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/50.350650
  • Filename
    350650