Abstract
We demonstrated effective optical gain clamping for gain-flattened S-band discrete Raman amplifier. Gain flattening is achieved by pumping at multiple wavelengths. Minimum input signal dynamic range is over 18dB in different cases of lasing wavelengths.
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