• DocumentCode
    3528998
  • Title

    Er/Ce Codoped Tellurite Fibre Amplifier for High-Gain and Low-Noise Operation

  • Author

    Wei, Y.Q. ; Harsh, A. ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H. ; Shen, Shikui ; Jha, Abhishek

  • Author_Institution
    Eng. Dept., Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-28 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A high performance Er/Ce codoped tellurite fibre amplifier is presented. A 980-nm pumped fibre of only 22 cm length exhibits a net peak gain of 22 dB and a noise figure (NF) below 4.4 dB.
  • Keywords
    cerium; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; Ce; Er; fibre amplifier; pumped fibre; wavelength 980 nm; Erbium; Glass; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Operational amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber testing; Optical pumping; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-856-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528646
  • Filename
    4528646