A Gaussian envelope based analysis of erbium doped fiber amplifiers using photonic crystal fibers

Author

Rao, Uma R. ; Lande, B.K.

Author_Institution

VJTI, Mumbai, India

fYear

2009

fDate

23-26 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Higher field confinement in Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) with larger air hole diameter, facilitates better interaction between the modal field and the doped erbium ions yielding higher gain. The effect of PCF pitch to air hole diameter ratio on the gain of an Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) using PCF is investigated and the results are presented in this paper. A triangular lattice PCF structure with index guiding is designed to be used in an EDFA. Modal fields are computed using Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method and the rate equations are numerically solved using fourth order Runge Kutta method. The results are compared with those obtained by using a Step Index Fiber (SIF) in the amplifier. It is observed that a PCF EDFA provides better gain for a given length of the fiber as compared to the SIF.

Keywords

Runge-Kutta methods; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; photonic crystals; Gaussian envelope based analysis; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; fourth order Runge Kutta method; photonic crystal fibers; plane wave expansion; rate equations; step index fiber; triangular lattice; Doped fiber amplifiers; Equations; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Erbium doped fiber amplifiers; photonic crystal fiber; plane wave expansion method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4546-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4547-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2009.5395865

Filename

5395865