Dependence of performance of saturated in-line erbium-doped fiber amplifiers on pump wavelength around 1480 nm

Author

Smart, R.G. ; Zyskind, J.L. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; DiGiovanni, D.J.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

5

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

523

Lastpage

525

Abstract

The effect of pump wavelength around 1480 nm on the performance of saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) suitable for use as in-line amplifiers for terrestrial and submarine systems is investigated experimentally. The results show that for high-gain amplifiers (25 dB) with high output powers (15 dBm), operating around 10 dB in compression, the performance is relatively insensitive to pump wavelength. However, for lower gain amplifiers (12 dB), pumped at low (15 mW) powers, the compression of the amplifier is found to decrease significantly with increasing pump wavelength, while the noise figure shows a weak minimum for a pump wavelength near 1480 nm.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical pumping; optical saturation; 12 dB; 1480 nm; 15 mW; 25 dB; EDFAs; Er-doped fibre amplifiers; IR; compression; high output powers; high-gain amplifiers; in-line amplifiers; noise figure; optical communications systems; pump wavelength; saturated in-line erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; submarine systems; terrestrial systems; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; High power amplifiers; Noise figure; Optical fiber polarization; Performance gain; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Repeaters; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.215269

Filename

215269