Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier
The dependence of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) performance on amplifier self-saturation is studied by tuning the pump wavelength over a 5 nm band centered at 980 nm. Gain and noise figure are degraded at the peak pump absorption wavelength, which shows the strongest effect of amplifier self-s...
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2001
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| author | M.A. Mahdi, S. Thirumeni, P. Poopalan, |
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| description | The dependence of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) performance on amplifier self-saturation is studied by tuning the pump wavelength over a 5 nm band centered at 980 nm. Gain and noise figure are degraded at the peak pump absorption wavelength, which shows the strongest effect of amplifier self-saturation. It is shown experimentally that tuning the pump wavelength away from the peak pump absorption provides 1 -2 dB improvement in pump to-signal conversion. The effect of amplifier self-saturation is also dependent on the signal wavelength where high gain and noise figure penalties are obtained at 1530 nm (± 5 nm) band. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:38142012-03-20T03:49:52Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3814/ Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier M.A. Mahdi, S. Thirumeni, P. Poopalan, The dependence of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) performance on amplifier self-saturation is studied by tuning the pump wavelength over a 5 nm band centered at 980 nm. Gain and noise figure are degraded at the peak pump absorption wavelength, which shows the strongest effect of amplifier self-saturation. It is shown experimentally that tuning the pump wavelength away from the peak pump absorption provides 1 -2 dB improvement in pump to-signal conversion. The effect of amplifier self-saturation is also dependent on the signal wavelength where high gain and noise figure penalties are obtained at 1530 nm (± 5 nm) band. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2001 Article PeerReviewed M.A. Mahdi, and S. Thirumeni, and P. Poopalan, (2001) Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier. Sains Malaysiana, 30 . pp. 187-194. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol30_2001/vol30_01page187-194.html |
| spellingShingle | M.A. Mahdi, S. Thirumeni, P. Poopalan, Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title | Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title_full | Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title_fullStr | Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title_short | Self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| title_sort | self-saturation of amplified spontaneous emission in a fiber amplifier |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3814/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3814/ |