The small-signal gain spectrum, noise figure and saturation characteristics of a diode-pumped erbium-doped fibre optical amplifier in a fluoride glass host are presented. The fibre was used to demonstrate power amplification of 2 Gbit/s intensity modulated data, followed by transmission over 100 km of dispersion-shifted fibre.
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Spirit et al. (1990) studied this question.