Numerical simulations and experimental results of a hybrid EDFA-Raman amplifier

Author

Rivera, Cristián ; Olivares, Ricardo ; Giraldi, Maria Thereza M Rocco ; Barbero, Andrés P López ; Pontes, Maria José ; Segatto, Marcelo E V ; Martinez, Maria Aparecida G ; Costa, João Crisóstomo Weyl

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. Tec. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

fYear

2009

Firstpage

695

Lastpage

699

Abstract

In this work numerical simulated and experimental results are obtained for a hybrid EDFA-Raman amplifier. Rigorous numerical models of both EDFA and Raman amplifiers are implemented and validated with experimental measurements. Results of ripple smaller than 1 dB are obtained for the hybrid amplifier gain, in 40 nm of bandwidth. The numerical model permits to achieve optimal design and to predict flat amplifier gain using genetic algorithm.

Keywords

erbium; genetic algorithms; numerical analysis; optical fibre amplifiers; Jk:Er; ebium doped fiber amplifier; flat amplifier gain; genetic algorithm; hybrid EDFA-Raman amplifier; numerical simulations; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Numerical simulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; EDFAs; Optical amplifiers; Raman amplifiers; WDM optical systems; hybrid amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2009 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Belem

ISSN

1679-4389

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5356-6

Electronic_ISBN

1679-4389

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2009.5427491

Filename

5427491