• DocumentCode
    1021386
  • Title

    Two-stage erbium-doped fibre amplifiers suitable for use in long-haul soliton systems

  • Author

    Smart, R.G. ; Zyskind, J.L. ; DiGiovanni, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    1/6/1994 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    50
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    The performance of 980nm-pumped, two stage erbium-doped fibre amplifiers incorporating mid-amplifier components is investigated experimentally to determine their suitability as in-line repeaters for long haul soliton systems. Amplifiers are considered with counter-propagating pump and signal, as are devices pumped through WDMs located in the middle of the amplifier. These devices are found to offer significantly better noise performance than single stage designs
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical pumping; optical solitons; repeaters; 980 nm; 980nm-pumped; Er-doped two-stage fibre amplifier; WDMs; counter-propagating; erbium-doped fibre amplifiers; in-line repeaters; long-haul soliton systems; mid-amplifier components; noise performance; two-stage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19940023
  • Filename
    260596