Title :
A thermalization of EDFA gain by hybrid concatenation of antimony-doped silica EDF
Author :
Im, Young-Eun ; Ryu, Uh-Chan ; Babu, P. ; Han, Won-Taek ; Oh, K. ; DiGiovanni, David J. ; Wang, Baishi ; Hariharan, Anand
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun., K-JIST, Kwangju, South Korea
Abstract :
Sb-doped silica EDF showed an opposite temperature dependent gain profile compared to Al-doped silica EDF. Concatenation of those two EDFs showed a gain variation less than /spl plusmn/0.4 dB over 40 nm of C-band with the 15 dB gain, in the temperature range of -40 to +80/spl deg/C.
Keywords :
aluminium; antimony; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; thermo-optical effects; -40 to 80 C; 15 dB; Al-doped silica EDF; C-band; EDFA gain thermalization; SiO/sub 2/; antimony-doped silica EDF hybrid concatenation; temperature dependent gain profile; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain measurement; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission; Temperature dependence; Temperature distribution; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
