Abstract
We present comparative measurements of polarization dependent gain in neodymium and ytterbium doped fiber amplifiers. We demonstrate, that this effect is always present in neodymium doped amplifiers while it can be suppressed in ytterbium doped amplifiers.
© 2003 Optical Society of America
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