S-band gain-flattened EDFA with two-stage double-pass configuration

Hai-Wei Fu; Shi-Chao Xu; Xue-Guang Qiao; Zhen-An Jia; Ying-Gang Liu; Hong Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.918822

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25 January 2012 S-band gain-flattened EDFA with two-stage double-pass configuration

Hai-Wei Fu, Shi-Chao Xu, Xue-Guang Qiao, Zhen-An Jia, Ying-Gang Liu, Hong Zhou

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Proceedings Volume 8331, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking; 83310H (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918822
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings 2011, 2011, Wuhan, China

Abstract

A gain-flattened S-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) using standard erbium-doped fiber (EDF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed amplifier with two-stage double-pass configuration employs two C-band suppressing filters to obtain the optical gain in S-band. The amplifier provides a maximum signal gain of 41.6 dB at 1524 nm with the corresponding noise figure of 3.8 dB. Furthermore, with a well-designed short-pass filter as a gain flattening filter (GFF), we are able to develop the S-band EDFA with a flattened gain of more than 20 dB in 1504-1524 nm. In the experiment, the two-stage double-pass amplifier configuration improves performance of gain and noise figure compared with the configuration of single-stage double-pass S-band EDFA.

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Hai-Wei Fu, Shi-Chao Xu, Xue-Guang Qiao, Zhen-An Jia, Ying-Gang Liu, and Hong Zhou "S-band gain-flattened EDFA with two-stage double-pass configuration", Proc. SPIE 8331, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking, 83310H (25 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918822

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