Title :
Broadband and gain-flattened Er3+-doped tellurite fibre amplifier constructed using a gain equaliser
Author :
Yamada, Makoto ; Mori, Alessandro ; Ono, H. ; Kobayashi, Kaoru ; Kanamori, Toshiyuki ; Ohishi, Yasutake
Author_Institution :
NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Ibaraki
fDate :
2/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors have constructed a broadband and gain-flattened Er3+-doped tellurite fibre amplifier by using a Mach-Zehnder type optical filter as a gain equaliser. They obtained a 3 dB down bandwidth of 68 nm in the 1536-1604 nm wavelength region
Keywords :
fibre lasers; 1536 to 1604 nm; Mach-Zehnder optical filter; TeO2:Er; broadband gain-flattened Er3+-doped tellurite fibre amplifier; gain equaliser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19980266