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Noise figure for erbium-doped optical fibre amplifiers |
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| Authors: | Olshansky R |
| Affiliation: | GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA; |
| Abstract: | A rate equation model is used to calculate the excess noise figure for erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. It is shown that erbium amplifiers can operate with high gain and can have noise figures only 0.2 dB above the quantum limit |
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