Title :
Er3+-Er3+ interaction effects and performance evaluation of Erbium Doped Fiber amplifiers
Author :
Amin, Md Ziaul ; Qureshi, Khurram Karim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner. (KFUPM), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
High quantum efficiency is required with short length of Erbium Doped Fiber (EDF). This is usually achieved by using highly doped fibers. However, the increasing dopant concentrations degrade the performance of the EDFA due to ion-ion interaction effects such as Homogeneous Upconversion (HUC) and Inhomogeneous Upconversion (IUC). In this paper, the performance of EDFA is simulated for different Er3+ doping concentrations. Performance degradation of the EDFA due to HUC/IUC and their combined effects are also studied. Simulation results show that IUC is the dominating factor for the performance degradation of the EDFA.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; EDF; HUC; IUC; dopant concentrations; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; homogeneous upconversion; inhomogeneous upconversion; interaction effects; ion-ion interaction effects; optical amplifiers; performance evaluation; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Ions; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Semiconductor process modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2015 IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Halifax, NS
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5827-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2015.7129481
