Abstract
We compare the nonlinearity tolerance of a conventional silica-based fiber amplifier and a Bismuth-based fiber amplifier. The Bismuth-based amplifier has shown superior performance over the conventional amplifier for short pulse amplification.
© 2003 Optical Society of America
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