Title :
Inhomogeneously broadened fiber-amplifier cascade for wavelength-multiplexed systems
Author :
Goldstein, E.L. ; da Silva, V. ; Eskildsen, L. ; Andrejco, M. ; Silberberg, Y.
Author_Institution :
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA
fDate :
5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors observe little or no accumulation of optical-power variations among wavelength-multiplexed signals as they traverse successive stages of a cooled, inhomogeneously broadened, erbium-doped fiber-amplifier cascade. The cascade instead exhibits separate automatic power regulation of each channel, decoupled from other channels, without the use of servo loops.<>
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; optical links; spectral line breadth; wavelength division multiplexing; automatic power regulation; cooled; decoupled channels; erbium-doped fiber-amplifier; fiber-amplifier cascade; inhomogeneously broadened; wavelength-multiplexed systems; Doped fiber amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
