Integrated optics erbium ytterbium amplifier system in 10 Gb/s fiber transmission experiment

Author

Delavaux, J.-M.P. ; Granlund, S. ; Mizuhara, O. ; Tzeng, L.D. ; Barbier, D. ; Rattay, M. ; Andre, F. Saint ; Kevorkian, A.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Breinigsville, PA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

19-19 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

123

Abstract

We report the full characterization of a pigtailed erbium-ytterbium co-doped planar glass waveguide laser amplifier module. With a single 980 nm diode pump, this ion-exchanged 4.5 cm long device delivers signal gain of 16.5 dB, noise figure of 4.5 dB, and saturated power of a 12.5 dBm. To confirm its stability, we tested this module as a power booster in a 10 Gb/s transmission system experiment at the 1534 nm wavelength, and demonstrated successful bit error rate (BER<10/sup -12/) transmission over 72.5 km of dispersion shifted fiber.

Keywords

erbium; laser noise; modules; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical planar waveguides; optical pumping; optical saturation; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 10 Gbit/s; 1534 nm; 16.5 dB; 4.5 cm; 72.5 km; 980 nm; Er,Yb pigtailed co-doped planar glass waveguide laser amplifier module; Gb/s fiber transmission experiment; Gb/s transmission system experiment; bit error rate transmission; dispersion shifted fiber; integrated optics; ion-exchanged cm long device; nm diode pump; nm wavelength; noise figure; power booster; saturated power; signal gain; stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Oslo, Norway

Print_ISBN

82-423-0418-1

Type

conf

Filename

713755