Performances of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier using 1530nm-Band Pump for Long Wavelength Multichannel Amplification

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关键词: 153nm-band pumping;    forward pumping;    noise figure;    gain coefficient;    EDFA;    L-band EDFA;   

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DOI  :  10.4218/etrij.01.0101.0101

【 摘 要 】

The performance of a long wavelength-band erbiumdoped fiber amplifier (L-band EDFA) using 1530nm-band pumping has been studied. A 1530nm-band pump source is built using a tunable light source and two C-band EDFAs in cascaded configuration, which is able t

   

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