A low-noise L-band EDFA with a 1500-nm Raman-pumped dispersion-compensating fiber section

Author

Chung, Hee Sang ; Lee, Wonkyoung ; Chu, Moo-Jung ; Lee, Yong Bae ; Lee, Han Hyub ; Lee, Donghan

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Dept., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

15

Issue

4

fYear

2003

fDate

4/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

524

Abstract

This report presents a low-noise L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with a dispersion-compensating Raman amplifier. With an optimized prestage and 1500-nm Raman-pump laser diodes, the proposed EDFA achieved an internal noise figure of less than 4.5 dB over a 33-nm flat gain bandwidth within 0.5 dB at -2 dBm of large signal input power.

Keywords

erbium; laser noise; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; 1500 nm; Raman-pump laser diodes; Raman-pumped dispersion-compensating fiber section; dispersion-compensating Raman amplifier; flat gain bandwidth; internal noise figure; large signal input power; low-noise L-band EDFA; low-noise L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier; optimized prestage; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; L-band; Noise measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.809318

Filename

1190190