AMPLIFICATION OF ULTRASHORT SOLITONS IN ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS

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AGRAWAL, GP
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[1] Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester
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10.1109/68.62015
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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Pulse amplification in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers is studied by considering a general model that includes both gain saturation and gain dispersion. The effects of gain dispersion are studied numerically for the case in which a fundamental soliton is launched at the amplifier input. The results show that fiber amplifiers may be useful for simultaneous amplification and compression of weak optical pulses. Under high-gain conditions the input pulse is found to split into a train of amplified subpulses whose width and repetition rate are governed by the gain bandwidth. The numerical results are in qualitative agreement with the recent experiments.
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