• DocumentCode
    1788910
  • Title

    Pump power distribution in bidirectional pumped dual-stage L-band EDFA

  • Author

    Yusoff, N. Md ; Mohamed, N. ; Sulaiman, A.H. ; Mahdi, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Razak Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., UTM Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    2-4 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    198
  • Lastpage
    200
  • Abstract
    Bidirectional pumped dual-stage L-band EDFA utilizing a single power splitter and pump laser has been presented in this paper. A power splitter has been used to distribute the pump power bidirectionally to pump two EDFs with different length. An average gain of 18.6 dB with average NF of 8.6 dB has been attained when the signal is equal to 0 dBm ranging from 1570 nm to 1605 nm signal. By using a single pump simultaneously with low gain ripple of less than 0.7 dB throughout the L-band transmission window.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical beam splitters; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; L-band transmission window; average gain; bidirectional pumped dual-stage L-band EDFA; pump laser; pump power distribution; single power splitter; wavelength 1570 nm to 1605 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; L-band; Laser excitation; Noise; Noise measurement; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics (ICP), 2014 IEEE 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICP.2014.7002354
  • Filename
    7002354