Erbium-doped fiber: Amplifiers: What everyone needs to know

摘要

This paper discusses erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and its applications. EDFA gain performance and fiber optimization, EDFA saturation and output power, amplified spontaneous emission and noise, amplifier chains, gain spectra, broadband EDFAs and WDM systems, spectral and hole burning in EDFAs, EDFA gain dynamics and power transients, control, management and optical networks . distributed Raman amplifiers, applications of amplifiers in space division multiplexing were discussed.