Integrated optics erbium-ytterbium amplifier system in 10-Gb/s fiber transmission experiment

Author

Delavaux, J.-M.P. ; Granlund, S. ; Mizuhara, O. ; Tzeng, L.D. ; Barbier, D. ; Rattay, M. ; André, F. Saint ; Kevorkian, A.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Breinigsville, PA, USA

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

1997

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

249

Abstract

We report the full characterization of a pigtailed erbium-ytterbium codoped planar glass waveguide amplifier module. With a single 980-nm diode pump, this ion-exchanged 4.5-cm-long device delivers a signal gain of 16.5 dB, a noise figure of 5 dB, and a saturated output power of 12.5 dBm. To verify its practicality and stability, we tested this module as a power booster in a 10 Gb/s transmission system experiment at the 1534 nm wavelength, and demonstrated the successful bit-error-rate (BER<10/sup -12/) transmission over 72.5 km of dispersion shifted fiber.

Keywords

erbium; ion exchange; laser stability; laser transitions; optical fibre dispersion; optical glass; optical planar waveguides; optical pumping; optical saturation; optical transmitters; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 10 Gbit/s; 1534 nm; 16.5 dB; 4.5 cm; 72.5 km; 980 nm; Gb/s fiber transmission experiment; Gb/s transmission system experiment; dispersion shifted fiber; erbium-ytterbium amplifier system; integrated optics; ion-exchanged; nm diode pump; nm wavelength; noise figure; pigtailed erbium-ytterbium codoped planar glass waveguide amplifier module; power booster; practicality; saturated output power; signal gain; solid laser amplifiers; stability; successful bit-error-rate transmission; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Glass; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.553108

Filename

553108