• DocumentCode
    1745981
  • Title

    Dynamic gain flattening of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier using a high-birefringence fiber loop mirror

  • Author

    Shenping Li ; Chiang, K.S. ; Gambling, W.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    17-22 March 2001
  • Abstract
    A flexible method based on a high-birefringence fiber loop mirror is proposed for the gain flattening of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The gain profile was flattened to within /spl plusmn/0.9 dB over a 33 nm bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    birefringence; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; dynamic gain flattening; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; gain profile; high birefringence fiber loop mirror; optical fibre communication systems; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Interferometers; Mirrors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical reflection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    927290