Revitalization of Gain Flatness and Bit-Error Rate for an EDFA-WDM System

Author

Verma, Deepika ; Meena, Santosh

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Dept, Gov. Women´s Eng. Coll., Ajmer, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

241

Abstract

In EDFA(Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier) the gain flattening is a very important issue. EDFA plays a very important role in WDM optical applications. The purpose of this project is to correct the gain non-uniformity for each channel in order to equalize the amplitude gain in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system. The system is simulated using Optisystem 12 software to achieve gain flatness of EDFA through optimized fiber length and pump power. The gain are flattened within 32±0.36dB from 1546nm to 1558nm band of wavelength with noise figure (NF) <;7dB and bit error rate (BER) <;10^-10 for 16channels simultaneous amplification in a single stage EDFA. A WDM system which includes an EDFA is modeled and obtained maximum uniformed gains. We have achieved the quality factor nearly of 6.

Keywords

Q-factor; erbium; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA-WDM system; Optisystem 12 software; amplitude gain; bit-error rate; erbium doped fiber amplifier; gain flatness; gain nonuniformity; noise figure; optimized fiber length; pump power; quality factor; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA length; bit error rate; gain flatness and WDM system; pump power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6928-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICN.2014.62

Filename

7065481