Design of Cascaded Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Supporting Four Linearly Polarized Modes

Qin Zujun; Yuan Ming; Zhang Wentao; Ye Song; Xiong Xianming

doi:10.3788/lop53.010605

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