Hybrid fiber amplifiers are widely used in DWDM systems.In view of the defects of current hybrid fiber amplifiers
this paper proposes an EDFA/RFA-based hybrid fiber amplifier
in which the gain variations are regulated on a unified control platform without a built-in VOA and the RFA and EDFA gains can be mutually compensated and so their gain tilts
ensuring the flatness of the gains.Experimental results show that this hybrid fiber amplifier is characteristic of low noise