THE EFFECT OF TRANSIENT GAIN COMPRESSION IN A SATURATED EDFA ON OPTICAL-TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY TESTING
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10.1109/68.329638
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This paper examines optical-time-domain-reflectometry (OTDR) pulse distortion due to transient gain compression in a saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and the resultant effect on testing long-haul optical fiber systems.