Study of Multichannel Amplification in Erbium-Doped Zirconia-Yttria- Alumino-Silicate Fiber

Author

Pal, Mrinmay ; Paul, Mukul Chandra ; Bhadra, S.K. ; Das, Shyamal ; Yoo, Seongwoo ; Kalita, M.P. ; Boyland, Alexander J. ; Sahu, Jayanta K.

Author_Institution

Fibre Opt. & Photonics Div., Council of Sci. & Ind. Res., Kolkata, India

Volume

29

Issue

14

fYear

2011

fDate

7/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2109

Lastpage

2115

Abstract

We report signal amplification and output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for simultaneous four-channel amplification at C-band in the new type of erbium-doped fiber (EDF) having core glass compositions of zirconia-yttria-alumino-phospho-silicate (EDF-I). Performance of EDF-I is compared with two mostly used EDFs having core glass compositions of alumino-silicate (EDF-II) and germino-alumino-silicate (EDF-III). EDF-I produces the best result of maximum gain difference <; 2 dB with output SNR of >; 22 dB at input signal level of -30 dB·m/channel amplification.

Keywords

aluminosilicate glasses; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical glass; phosphosilicate glasses; yttrium compounds; zirconium compounds; ZrO₂-Y₂O₃-Al₂O₃-P₂O₅-SiO₂:Er; core glass compositions; erbium-doped zirconia-yttria-alumino-silicate fiber amplifiers; four-channel amplification; gain difference; multichannel amplification; signal amplification; signal-to-noise ratio; Erbium; Gain; Glass; Optical fiber amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; Core glass compositions; Zr-EDF; multichannel amplification;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Location

5/19/2011 12:00:00 AM

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2157083

Filename

5771520