Dynamic compensation of transient gain saturation in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers by pump feedback control

Author

Motoshima, K. ; Leba, L.M. ; Chen, D.N. ; Downs, M.M. ; Li, T. ; Desurvire, E.

Author_Institution

Commun. Syst. Lab., Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

5

Issue

12

fYear

1993

Firstpage

1423

Lastpage

1426

Abstract

Dynamic compensation of transient gain saturation in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers by pump feedback control is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. It is shown by the theoretical analysis that the gain saturation of 10 dB can be suppressed to less than 0.3 dB if moderately high pump power of 140 mW is available. Furthermore, the required response time of the feedback loop is as slow as 0.5 mu s, which is easily implemented by inexpensive electronics. It is demonstrated experimentally that the transient gain saturation of 3 dB is reduced to 0.3 dB, corresponding to a 10-dB extension of the linear dynamic range of the amplifier.<>

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical pumping; optical saturation; 0.5 mus; 10 to 0.3 dB; 140 mW; Er-doped fiber amplifiers; dynamic compensation; feedback loop; linear dynamic range; pump feedback control; response time; transient gain saturation; Absorption; Equations; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Feedback control; Feedback loop; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Probes; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.262563

Filename

262563