Title :
Characterisation of cascaded EDFA with the inclusion of an interstage optical element
Author :
Ismail, Norazmi ; Mahdi, Mohd Adzir ; Poopalan, Prabakaran ; Ahmad, Harith
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Malaya Univ., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFA) have been widely used for long haul transmission and are already in place for WDM applications. We characterised cascaded optical amplifiers by comparing their performance while operating with and without an interstage optical filter. It is noticeable that the 3 nm filter improved the gain (G) and output signal power (Psout) by as much as 9.72 dB and 9.75 dB respectively at a signal level of -50 dBm
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical transmitters; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM applications; amplifier gain; cascaded EDFA; cascaded optical amplifiers; erbium-doped fibre amplifiers; interstage optical element; interstage optical filter; long haul transmission; output signal power; signal level; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Electronics, 1998. Proceedings. ICSE '98. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangi
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4971-7
DOI :
10.1109/SMELEC.1998.781160
