Performance improvement of wideband EDFA by ASE injection from C band to L band amplifier

Author

Min, Bumki ; Yoon, Hosung ; Lee, Wonjae ; Kim, Jungmi ; Park, Namkyoo

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Syst. Lab., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1346

Abstract

We propose a novel structure for an wideband EDFA, which use backward amplified spontaneous emission from the C-band EDFA as the injection seed source for the L-band amplifier. Experimental results show gain and noise figure improvement over 2.6 dB and 0.6 dB respectively for the L-band EDFA at -3.5 dBm input signal, with negligible crosstalk between the amplifiers.

Keywords

erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; wideband amplifiers; ASE injection; C-band EDFA; C-band amplifier; L-band amplifier; WDM system; backward amplified spontaneous emission; crosstalk; experimental results; gain; injection seed source; input signal; noise figure; performance improvement; wideband EDFA; Broadband amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; L-band; Noise figure; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820515

Filename

820515