Characterization of tapered-erbium doped fiber in co-propagating amplifier

Author

Ali, M. I Md ; Musa, B. ; Noor, A.S.M. ; Anas, S.B.A. ; Zamzuri, A.K. ; Mahdi, M.A.

Author_Institution

Photonic Lab., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The characteristics of tapered-EDF is studied. The loss, transmission and ASE spectrum, gain and noise figure are measured in order to observe the behavior of tapered-EDF. The comb-like spectrum with equal distance of 1.6nm is observed both for the ASE spectrum as well as for the transmission spectrum. This validates that the coupling between fundamental mode and higher order modes occurred in the tapered section. The power intensity loss is 7 dB due to tapering process. Due to that fact, the gain and noise figure does not show significance improvement in the experiment.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical noise; superradiance; ASE spectrum; comb-like spectrum; copropagating amplifier; fundamental mode; gain figure; high-order modes; loss spectrum; noise figure; power intensity loss; tapered-erbium doped fiber; transmission spectrum; Broadband communication; Loss measurement; Monitoring; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical variables measurement; Photonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2011 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kata Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-265-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-263-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2011.6106887

Filename

6106887