Optical level equalisation based on gain saturationin fibre opticalparametric amplifier
- 8 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 36 (12) , 1016-1017
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20000755
Abstract
Optical level equalisation operation based on gain saturation in an optical fibre parametric amplifier is reported. The signal output has been measured as a function of the signal input in a fibre parametric amplifier, with the result that the signal gain saturates as the input power increases and the output power reached a maximum value at a particular input level. Utilising this gain saturation property, optical level equalisation has been demonstrated.Keywords
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