Novel backward travelling ASE monitor for gain-flatness control in L-band erbium doped fiber amplifiers

A. R. Pratt; K. Fujii; Y. Ozeki

Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000),
paper OWA5

Novel backward travelling ASE monitor for gain-flatness control in L-band erbium doped fiber amplifiers

A. R. Pratt, K. Fujii, and Y. Ozeki

Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications 2000

Québec City Canada
ISBN: 1-55752-642-79

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A. R. Pratt, K. Fujii, and Y. Ozeki, "Novel backward travelling ASE monitor for gain-flatness control in L-band erbium doped fiber amplifiers," in Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications, A. Mecozzi, M. Shimizu, and J. Zyskind, eds., Vol. 44 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000), paper OWA5.

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Abstract

A new gain control technique based on monitoring backward ASE at 1532 nm is reported for long wavelength band erbium doped fiber amplifiers. Using this technique a gain flatness of 0.6dB/30nm is demonstrated experimentally over a dynamic input range of 10 dB.

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