Bidirectional hybrid fiber amplifiers in a recycling-pump mechanism

Author

Liaw, S.-K. ; Wang, Y.-C. ; Yu, Y.-L. ; Liu, R.-Y. ; Payne, F.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a bidirectional hybrid fiber amplifiers is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The hybrid amplifiers include a C-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and an L-band Raman fiber amplifier (RFA). A single-wavelength pump source at 1495 nm is pumped shared to both the EDFA and the RFA. Under the pump power of 500 mW, the average gains are about 11.3 dB for the C band EDFA and 10.0 dB for the L band RFA, respectively, with a launched signal power of -10 dBm per channel. For 50 km and 75 km bidirectional transmission, the power penalties are less than 0.38 dB and 0.88 dB, respectively, as compared to their unidirectional transmissions.

Keywords

Raman lasers; erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; C-band fiber amplifier; EDFA; L-band Raman fiber amplifier; bidirectional hybrid fiber amplifier; bidirectional transmission; distance 50 km; distance 75 km; erbium doped fiber amplifier; power 500 mW; recycling pump mechanism; single wavelength pump source; wavelength 1495 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Poznan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1472-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292719

Filename

6292719