Title :
Spectrally flat and high-power Er-Yb amplifier for telecommunications applications
Author :
Ahmad, Raja ; Rochette, Martin ; Chatigny, Stephane
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A multimode erbium-ytterbium doped fiber can be advantageously used for the amplification of WDM channels over an extended spectral band with respect to conventional designs. Bit error ratio at 10 Gb/s, gain and noise figure are provided.
Keywords :
erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; ytterbium; JkJk:Er-Yb; WDM channel; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; multimode fiber; spectrally flat fiber amplifier; telecommunications application; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; High power amplifiers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical propagation; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343338
