Title :
100-nm cascaded hybrid doped fiber amplifier for coarse wavelength division multiplexing
Author :
Yam, S.S.-H. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Kubota, Y. ; Inoue, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
A hybrid amplifier spanning from 1468-1568 nm is constructed by cascading a thulium-doped fiber amplifier pumped at 690 nm and 1400 nm and a cerium co-doped high concentration wideband erbium-doped fiber amplifier.
Keywords :
cerium; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; thulium; wavelength division multiplexing; cascaded hybrid doped fiber amplifier; cascading; cerium co-doped high concentration fiber amplifier; coarse wavelength division multiplexing; pumping; thulium-doped fiber amplifier; wideband erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Broadband amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192813
