A new technique, using fibre-Bragg gratings with different centre freq
uencies to reflect the different channel signals at different position
s, is proposed for flattening the gain spectrum of an erbium-doped fib
re amplifier. A designed gain excursion of <0.1dB can be achieved for
16 channel multiplexed signals with 0.1mW input power in the 1532-1562
nm wavelength region.