Gain-Clamped L-Band Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier with Co- and Counter-Propagating Lasers
The long-wavelength-band (L-band) gain-clamped erbium-doped fiber amplifier with a co- and counter-propagating ring lasers is investigated. The ring laser at 1566nm is formed with a C/L-band wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coupler. This new technique has shown a good gain-clamping effect with...
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IOP Publishing
2003
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/19642/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.42.L1262 |
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| Summary: | The long-wavelength-band (L-band) gain-clamped erbium-doped fiber amplifier with a co- and counter-propagating ring lasers is investigated. The ring laser at 1566nm is formed with a C/L-band wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coupler. This new technique has shown a good gain-clamping effect with gain variation of less than 0.2 dB for input signal powers from -40 to -14 dBm. Compared with an undamped amplifier, the noise figures for small signals are improved due to the suppression of backward ASE. The amplifier with a co-propagating laser has shown a better gain and noise figure compared to with a counter-propagating laser. The advantage of both gain-clamped systems is that oscillating light does not appear at the output port of the amplifier. |
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