Inhomogeneous Gain Saturation in EDF: Experiment and Modeling

Author

Peretti, Romain ; Jacquier, Bernard ; Boivin, David ; Burov, Ekaterina ; Jurdyc, Anne-Marie

Author_Institution

Univ. de Lyon, Lyon, France

Volume

29

Issue

10

fYear

2011

fDate

5/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1445

Lastpage

1452

Abstract

Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers can present holes in spectral gain in Wavelength Division Multiplexing operation. The origin of this inhomogeneous saturation behavior is still a subject of controversy. In this paper we present both an experimental methods and a gain´s model. Our experimental method allow us to measure the first homogeneous linewidth of the 1.5 μm erbium emission with gain spectral hole burning consistently with the other measurement in the literature and the model explains the differences observed in literature between GSHB and other measurement methods.

Keywords

erbium; fluorescence; optical fibre amplifiers; optical hole burning; optical saturation; wavelength division multiplexing; EDF; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; gain spectral hole burning; inhomogeneous gain saturation; spectral gain; wavelength 1.5 mum; wavelength division multiplexing; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Measurement by laser beam; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical fiber amplifiers; Wavelength measurement; Erbium compounds; fluorescence spectroscopy; gain measurement; luminescence; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber materials;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2124443

Filename

5727900