Title :
Novel fiber devices for Raman amplifiers and EDFAs
Author_Institution :
ITF Opt. Technol., St-Laurent, Que., Canada
Abstract :
Fused and tapered fiber components and fiber gratings devices are used for wavelength or polarization combining, depolarizer, power combining and gain flattening. State of the art results will be presented for these various fiber-based devices.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; EDFA; Raman amplifiers; depolarizer; fiber gratings devices; fused fiber components; gain flattening; polarization combining; power combining; tapered fiber components; wavelength combining; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248091
