Abstract
We demonstrate a novel all-fiber hybrid erbium-Brillouin amplified laser source, and achieve 8-dB reduction of RIN compared with an EDFA based source. The resulting spurious-free dynamic range in an analog system is improved by 6.8 dB.
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