Polarization-maintaining EDFA for optical sensing application, composed of PANDA fiber based low loss and low cross-talk optical components

Author

Segi, T. ; Ouchi, Y. ; Nishiwaki, K. ; Sakai, T. ; Nishide, K. ; Wada, A.

Author_Institution

Opt. & Electron. Lab., Fujikura Ltd., Chiba, Japan

fYear

2002

Firstpage

289

Abstract

A polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber amplifier (PM-EDFA) for optical sensing systems has been achieved with newly developed PANDA fiber based optical components. It employs 980 nm pumping for good noise performance. A noise figure of 4.1 dB and polarization crosstalk of less than -30 dB have been achieved with a gain of 22 dB.

Keywords

erbium; fibre optic sensors; laser noise; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; 22 dB; 4.1 dB; 980 nm; EDFA gain; EDFA noise performance; PANDA fibers; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; low crosstalk optical components; low loss optical components; optical pumping; optical sensing applications; optical sensing systems; polarization crosstalk; polarization-maintaining EDFA; Crosstalk; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Insertion loss; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest, 2002. Ofs 2002, 15th

Conference_Location

Portland, OR, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7289-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFS.2002.1000559

Filename

1000559