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Advanced architectures for wideband WDM amplifiers

Bayart et al., 1997

Document ID
7503340078159588032
Author
Bayart D
Bousselet P
Chiquet F
Le Sergent C
Clesca B
Havard V
Beylat J
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (

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In some currently deployed terrestrial transmission systems, amplifiers must cope with long- term capacity upgrades by ensuring a gain bandwidth exceeding 30 nm and a noise performance close to 5 dB. A complex 980-nm/1480-nm pumped hybrid structure (HEDFFB) …
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