Abstract
We proposed a gain-flattened amplification scheme using two types of Raman amplifiers with different pumping wavelength allocations. The average gain-deviation per amplifier without gain equalization was only 0.2 dB in a 39-nm bandwidth.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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