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We report a unique low-cost technique for measuring gain and noise figure (NF) in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers using a broad-band amplified spontaneous emission source and a transmission filter, by extracting the slope and intercept of output power spectral density versus input power spectral density at filter edges. The required filter depth is 30 dB. Discrepancies of ≤0.3 dB are found between gain or NF obtained from this technique and those measured using conventional spectral-interpolation technique employing multiple lasers at 100-GHz spacing across the C-band.
Published in:
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
(Volume:16
,
Issue:
9
)
Date of Publication: Sept. 2004
- Page(s):
- 2030 - 2032
- ISSN :
- 1041-1135
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 8086547
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/LPT.2004.832599
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 24 August 2004
- Issue Date :
- Sept. 2004
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Photonics Society
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