READ ME File For 'DATASET for Recent Advances in Bismuth-doped Fiber Amplifiers' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3032 ReadMe Author: Jayanta K. Sahu, Ziwei Zhai, and Arindam Halder, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom This dataset supports the publication: Jayanta K. Sahu, Ziwei Zhai, and Arindam Halder. (2024) Recent Advances in Bismuth-doped Fiber Amplifiers OECC 2024 Description: The excel file contains all experimental data used for generating Fig.1. The figure is as follows: Fig. 1. Gain and NF characteristics for 35m of BGSF in both single- and double-pass amplifier configurations with a total pump power of 840mW and 681mW, respectively, using a combination of (1304+1310nm) and 1333nm pumps, and for an input signal of -23dBm. Inset: Schematic of a double-pass BDFA experimental setup. Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. Date: Jun 2024