Low-noise erbium-doped fibre amplifier operating at 1.54μm

The work

AuthorsR.J. Mears; L. Reekie; I.M. Jauncey; D.N. Payne
Editors
Typearticle
Year1987
Citekeymears1987lownoise

Where it appeared

Published inElectronics Letters
PublisherInstitution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Volume23
Issue19
Pages1026--1028

Identifiers

DOI10.1049/el:19870719
OpenAlexW2026867111

Related

Distinct fromdesurvire1987highgain Independent and near-simultaneous: both report a working erbium-doped fibre amplifier in 1987, Mears et al. from Southampton in Electronics Letters and Desurvire et al. from Bell Labs in Optics Letters. Different groups, different journals, same result -- neither supersedes or reprints the other, and a reader meeting one should know the other exists.

Abstract

High gain amplification of up to 28 dB has been observed in a 3m-long erbium-doped fibre. The amplifier has a spectral bandwidth of greater than 300 GHz in the region of 1.536μm and a measured sensitivity of -42dBm at a bit rate of 140Mbit/s.

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Cite it as

@article{mears1987lownoise,
  title        = {Low-noise erbium-doped fibre amplifier operating at 1.54μm},
  author       = {R.J. Mears and L. Reekie and I.M. Jauncey and D.N. Payne},
  year         = {1987},
  journal      = {Electronics Letters},
  publisher    = {Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)},
  volume       = {23},
  number       = {19},
  pages        = {1026--1028},
  doi          = {10.1049/el:19870719},
}

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