Wide-band Bismuth based erbium doped fiber amplifier for DWDM applications

Author

San, Cheng Xiau ; Ahmad, Harith ; Harun, Sulaiman Wadi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

14-15 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate a bismuth based erbium doped fiber amplifier (Bi-EDFA) which operates in both C and L band wavelength region. The system employs two pieces of bismuth based erbium doped fiber (Bi-EDF) as the gain medium with a midway broadband fiber Bragg grating (FBG). At input signal power of -30 dBm and pump power of 150 mW for both pumps, a flat-gain of around 29 dB is obtained with gain variation of Â± 3.5 dB within the wavelength region from 1525 to 1615 nm using a backward pumping scheme. At input power of 0 dBm, the gain varies from 10 to 13 dB within the wavelength range from 1530 to 1620 nm. The corresponding noise figure varies from 9.5 to 14 dB within this wavelength range.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; bismuth compounds; erbium; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; Bi₂O₃:Er; C band wavelength Bi-EDFA; DWDM; FBG; L band wavelength Bi-EDFA; backward pumping method; gain medium; midway broadband fiber Bragg grating; noise figure; power 150 mW; wavelength 1525 nm to 1615 nm; wavelength 1530 nm to 1620 nm; wavelength division multiplexed optical communication systems; wide-band bismuth based erbium doped fiber amplifier; Bismuth; Bragg gratings; Broadband amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Fiber gratings; L-band; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technical Postgraduates (TECHPOS), 2009 International Conference for

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5223-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5224-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TECHPOS.2009.5412065

Filename

5412065