An Experimental Study on S-band Depressed Cladding EDFA

Author

Daud, S.A. ; Emami, S.D. ; Rashid, H. A Abdul ; Mokhtar, M.R. ; Yusoff, Z. ; Rahman, F.A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics Res. & Applic. (IPRA), Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

81

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study of the performance characteristics of an S-band single pass and double pass erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), using depressed cladding erbium-doped fiber (EDF). The depressed cladding EDF is essentially used to suppress the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) at the longer wavelength to achieve high amplification in the S-band region. Both single pass and double pass 980 nm pumping are considered. Gain and noise figure of the EDFA are measured. Double pass EDFA shows a significant gain increase of 14 dB in comparison to single pass configuration.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; optical transmitters; superradiance; EDFA single pass configuration; JkJk:Er; S-band depressed cladding double pass EDFA; amplified spontaneous emission suppression; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; optical fibre communication system; optical pumping; wavelength 980 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain measurement; Laser excitation; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Optical amplifiers; Photonics; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; S-band; component; depressed cladding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Technologies 2008 and 2008 2nd Malaysia Conference on Photonics. NCTT-MCP 2008. 6th National Conference on

Conference_Location

Putrajaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2214-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2215-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCTT.2008.4814242

Filename

4814242