Hybrid three-stage C- plus L-band optical fiber amplifier in cascade configuration

Chien-Hung Yeh; Kuo-Hsiang Lai; Chien-Chung Lee; Sien Chi

doi:10.1117/1.1905628

1 May 2005 Hybrid three-stage C- plus L-band optical fiber amplifier in cascade configuration

Chien-Hung Yeh, Kuo-Hsiang Lai, Chien-Chung Lee, Sien Chi

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 44, Issue 5, 054201 (May 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1905628

Abstract

A hybrid C- plus L-band fiber amplifier module with three amplifier stages, which provides an operation range of 1540 to 1600 nm, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed amplifier consists of two erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFAs) and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) in cascade. Compared with a traditional L-band EDFA having longer EDF length, this amplifier can reduce the total EDF length to 44 m. As a result, 41.5 dB gain and a 3.7-dB noise figure are achieved at 1562 nm over the bandwidth of 1540 to 1600 nm, while the input signal power is –30 dBm. In addition, the behavior and performance of the proposed gain-clamping amplifier module over the C- plus L-band is investigated experimentally under different operation conditions.

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Chien-Hung Yeh, Kuo-Hsiang Lai, Chien-Chung Lee, and Sien Chi "Hybrid three-stage C- plus L-band optical fiber amplifier in cascade configuration," Optical Engineering 44(5), 054201 (1 May 2005). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1905628

Published: 1 May 2005

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