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Gain-flattened tellurite-based EDFA with a flat amplification bandwidth of 76 nm
Makoto Yamada,Atsushi Mori,Kenji Kobayashi,Hirotaka Ono,Terutoshi Kanamori,Kiyoshi Oikawa,Yoshiki Nishida,Yasutake Ohishi +7 more
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In this article, the authors flatten the gain spectrum and broaden the amplification bandwidth of Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers in order to increase the transmission capacity of WDM transmission networks.Abstract:
It is important to flatten the gain spectrum and broaden the amplification bandwidth of Er3+-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) in order to increase the transmission capacity of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission networks.read more
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Upconversion pumped thulium-doped fluoride fiber amplifier and laser operating at 1.47 /spl mu/m
TL;DR: In this article, a 1.064-/spl mu/m band upconversion pumped Tm/sup 3+/-doped fluoride fiber amplifier and a laser both operating at 1.47 /spl µ/m are investigated in detail.
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Low noise broadband tellurite-based Er/sup 3+/-doped fibre amplifiers
A. Mori,Koichi Kobayashi,Makoto Yamada,Terutoshi Kanamori,Kiyoshi Oikawa,Yoshiki Nishida,Yasutake Ohishi +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a low-loss tellurite-based Er3+-doped fiber for low noise 1.5 µm broadband EDFAs by developing high-purity TeO2 as a raw material is presented.
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An 80 nm ultra wide band EDFA with low noise figure and high output power
Yan Sun,James W. Sulhoff,A.K. Srivastava,John Lehrer Zyskind,C. Wolf,T.A. Strasser,J.R. Pedrazzani,Justin Boyd Judkins,Rolando Patricio Espindola,A.M. Vengsardar,Jianhui Zhou +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a two-band Er-doped Fibers Amplifier (EDFA) was demonstrated with an optical bandwidth of 80 nm, a noise figure of about 6 dB and an output power of 20.6 dBm.
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Split-beam Fourier filter and its application in a gain-flattened EDFA
TL;DR: The split-beam Fourier filter as mentioned in this paper has a Mach-Zehnder characteristic with an easily designed wavelength period that offers simplicity and extremely low excess loss as well as tunability of the center wavelength and extinction.
75-nm 3-dB gain-band optical amplification with erbium-doped fluoride fibre amplifiers and distributed Raman amplifiers in 9×2.5-Gb/s WDM transmission experiment
TL;DR: An extremely large 3dB gain-bandwidth of 75 nm (1531-1606 nm) was achieved employing partially gain-flattened erbium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers and Raman amplification in the transmission fibres as discussed by the authors.