Gain improvement in L-band double-pass EDFA with incorporated CFBG

Author

Al-Taha, M. R Haleem ; Idris, S.M. ; Jamaludin, M.Z. ; Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Abdullah, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report a gain improvement of L-band double-pass erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) by incorporating chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG). CFBG has been used to compensate the effect of single mode fiber (SMF) dispersion, reflect the amplified signal back into the gain medium for double pass amplification and block the residual 1480 nm pump power and the recycled forward amplified spontaneous emission. A practical comparative is conducted to compare the performance of the double-pass EDFA formed by CFBG and an optical mirror. The input signal is connected to lengths of transmission fiber before it enters the amplifier. The gain improved to about 9 dB and the maximum gain obtained from the experiment is 51.5 dB with noise figure of about 4 dB.

Keywords

chirp modulation; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; spontaneous emission; CFBG; L band double pass EDFA; chirped fiber Bragg grating; forward amplified spontaneous emission; gain improvement; single mode fiber dispersion; Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; L-band; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Stimulated emission; Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating; Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier; L-Band; Optical Amplifiers;

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.2011.6106890

Filename

6106890