A Traveling-Wave Optical Amplifier at 1.3microns.
01 January 1987
We describe a traveling-wave optical amplifier operating at a wavelength near 1.3microns. We demonstrate a fiber-amplifier gain for 13.1 dB with a gain variation of 1 dB. The fiber- amplifier coupling loss is 4.5 dB/interfacee and the amplifier facet mean reflectivity is 0.04%.