Abstract
A composite erbium-doped fibre amplifier configuration is presented which incorporates an isolator within the length to suppress the backward amplified spontaneous emission. The configuration shows increased gain efficiency accompanied by quantum-limited noise performance.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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