NOISE CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH-POWER DOPED-FIBER SUPERLUMINESCENT SOURCES

被引:104
作者
MORKEL, PR
LAMING, RI
PAYNE, DN
机构
[1] Optical Fibre Group, Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
关键词
Fibre optics; Noise; Optical fibres; Optics;
D O I
10.1049/el:19900066
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Measurement of the noise characteristics of a superluminescent erbium-doped silica fibre source shows a noise component in addition to shot noise, which prevents the SNR of the source output increasing beyond a fixed value. The additional noise component can be attributed to excess photon noise previously identified with light from thermal sources, and will be present in all broadband sources emitting above a certain power. © 1990, The Institution of Electrical Engineers. All rights reserved.
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页码:96 / 98
页数:3
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