A detailed comparison of the overall performance of 980 and 1480 nm pumped EDFA cascades in WDM multiple-access lightwave networks

Author

Ali, Mohamed A. ; Elrefaie, A.F. ; Wagner, Richard E. ; Ahmed, S.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of New York, NY, USA

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1436

Lastpage

1448

Abstract

A detailed comparison of the overall performance of 980 and 1480 mn pumped Er-doped fiber amplifier cascades over four different spectral regions of the usable amplifier band for multiple wavelength operation is presented. These comparisons are carried out by presenting a simple optimization method that relates the individual amplifier performance parameters to the overall performance of an amplifier cascade for best overall system performance. Issues considered are pump power, erbium-doped fiber length, accumulated ASE, inversion level, inter-amplifier fiber loss, and input signal levels and their spectral range

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser transitions; optical communication equipment; optical fibre losses; optical pumping; optimisation; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; 1480 nm; 980 nm; Er-doped fiber amplifier; WDM multiple-access lightwave networks; accumulated ASE; amplifier cascade; amplifier performance parameters; best overall system performance; erbium-doped fiber length; input signal levels; inter-amplifier fiber loss; inversion level; multiple wavelength operation; nm pumped EDFA cascades; optimization method; overall performance; pump power; spectral range; spectral regions; usable amplifier band; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Intelligent networks; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; System performance; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.511673

Filename

511673