Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications

Spectral hole burning measurement in the thulium-doped fiber amplifier

Fabien Roy, D. Bayart, Céline Heerdt, André Le Sauze, Pascal Baniel

Published Jan 1, 2001• 4 citations

Abstract

An accurate technique was implemented in order to measure the spectral hole burning in rare-earth amplifiers at room temperature, showing that TDFA exhibits hole depths four times lower compared to C-band EDFAs.

DOI: 10.1364/oaa.2001.owb3

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