• DocumentCode
    1515697
  • Title

    Dynamics of Spectral Hole Burning in EDFAs: Dependency on Pump Wavelength and Pump Power

  • Author

    Rapp, Lutz ; Ferreira, João

  • Author_Institution
    Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1256
  • Lastpage
    1258
  • Abstract
    Pump wavelength and pump power dependency of the dynamical response of spectral hole burning (SHB) in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) is investigated. The experimental results show a clear dependency on pump wavelength also in the 1480-nm range. Similar to other effects in EDFAs affecting transient performance, dynamics of SHB speeds up with increasing pump power. We conclude that the pump has a significant contribution to SHB and has to be taken into account in numerical models for SHB.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical hole burning; optical pumping; Jk:Er; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; pump power dependency; pump wavelength dependency; spectral hole burning; wavelength 1480 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA); optical (spectral) hole burning (SHB); optical communication; transient response; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2010.2052798
  • Filename
    5484551