Title :
Low nonlinearity bismuth oxide-based erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for short pulse amplification
Author :
Set, S. ; Jablonski, M. ; Kotake, T. ; Furuki, K. ; Tojo, M. ; Tanaka, Y. ; Sugimoto, N. ; Kikuchi, K.
Author_Institution :
AlnairLabs Corp., Kawaguchi-shi, Japan
Abstract :
We compare the nonlinearity tolerance of a conventional silica-based fiber amplifier and a bismuth-based fiber amplifier. The bismuth-based amplifier has shown superior performance over the conventional amplifier for short pulse amplification.
Keywords :
amplification; bismuth compounds; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; BiO2; SiO2; conventional amplifier; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; nonlinearity tolerance; short pulse amplification; silica-based fiber amplifier; Bismuth; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Four-wave mixing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Pulse amplifiers; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248462