Title :
Influence of pump direction in all-optical gain-clamped erbium doped fiber amplifier
Author :
Bastos-Filho, Carmelo J A ; Melo, Marcela Martins ; Martins-Filho, Joaquim F.
Author_Institution :
Departamento de Eletronica e Sistemas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
Abstract :
We demonstrate the influence of pump direction in the all-optical gain-clamped erbium doped fiber amplifier configuration using optical circulators in the feedback loop. The circulator disposition imposes the clamping laser to counterpropagate with the probe signal. We showed a better performance when the pump laser copropagates with the probe signal for operation conditions. We also compare the performance of this configuration with the one that uses directional couplers in the feedback loop
Keywords :
erbium; feedback; optical circulators; optical directional couplers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; all-optical gain-clamped erbium doped fiber amplifier; directional couplers; feedback loop; optical circulators; pump direction; pump laser; Circulators; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Feedback loop; Laser feedback; Optical feedback; Probes; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Optoelectronics, 2005 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brasilia
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9341-4
DOI :
10.1109/IMOC.2005.1580122
