ErbiumDoped Fiber Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction

• Principles of the Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

• Gain and Gain Spectrum

• Gain Flattening of EDFAs

• Noise in EDFA

• Gain Saturation

• Gain Transients

• EDFA Modules

• Fiber Lasers