• DocumentCode
    452562
  • Title

    Low Noise, Intelligent Cladding Pumped L-Band EDFA

  • Author

    Codemard, C. ; Yla-Jarkko, K. ; Singleton, J. ; Turner, P.W. ; Godfrey, L. ; Alam, S.-U. ; Nilsson, J. ; Sahu, J. ; Grudinin, A.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Southampton Photonics Inc.
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2002
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A new low-cost design for L-band EDFA is presented. The cladding-pumped amplifier exhibits 30 dB gain over 1570-1607 nm gain band with noise figure below 6 dB and power excursions below 0.1 dB for 10 dB variations of input power
  • Keywords
    erbium; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; 1 to 2 GHz; 1570 to 1607 nm; 30 dB; L-band EDFA; cladding-pumped amplifier; gain band; intelligent cladding pump; low noise; low-cost design; noise figure;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Copenhagen
  • Print_ISBN
    87-90974-63-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1601386