An EDFA theoretical analysis considering different configurations and pumping wavelengths

Author

Milo, Sergio ; Souza, Rui F. ; Silva, Marcia B C ; Conforti, Evandro ; Bordonalli, Aldario C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microwave & Opt., Univ. of Campinas, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

105

Abstract

The propagation behavior of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier parameters is theoretically analyzed in this work for different amplifier configurations and pumping wavelengths. These configurations were devised from the basic amplifier arrangement and developed to improve specific amplifier operational characteristics. By using the amplifier basic theory for pumping at 980 nm and 1480 nm, the configurations were modeled and simulated for given input boundary conditions. As a result, the longitudinal characteristics of signal, pumping, spontaneous emission, and noise figure were observed for all configurations and compared to those of the conventional amplifier. All simulations were carried out using parameters from a commercial erbium-doped fiber.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; 1480 nm; 980 nm; EDFA pumping wavelength; Er; amplified spontaneous emission; amplifier operational characteristics; erbium-doped fiber amplifier propagation behavior; noise figure; optical amplifier; optical communications; optical gain; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1244840

Filename

1244840