Abstract
Due to the superior noise performance they have demonstrated in single-wavelength point-to-point communications links, there is growing interest in employing erbium-doped fiber-amplifier cascades in reconfigurable multiwavelength networks that can be scaled to large size [1]. The chief obstacle facing such cascades arises from amplifier gain nonuniformities. Each amplifier provides gain, in dB, given.
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