Spectrally-efficient L-C band EDFA having a seamless interband channel region using sampled FBGs

Author

Xie, Y. ; Pan, Z. ; Willner, A.E. ; Salik, E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D.S. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

2001

fDate

5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

436

Lastpage

438

Abstract

We report a method and experimental demonstration for an L-C band silica-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) utilizing the entire wavelength range of both the L and C bands with no "dead zone" in between. Sampled fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are used to split the L and C bands, thereby providing amplification at many discrete wavelengths as well as a sharp transition between the two bands. Optical amplification with negligible power penalty is demonstrated within the interband zone using a 1.6-nm spacing between the highest C hand and lowest L band channels.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; L-C band; L-C band silica-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier; discrete wavelengths; interband zone; negligible power penalty; sampled FBG; sampled fiber Bragg gratings; seamless interband channel region; spectrally-efficient; Bandwidth; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber gratings; L-band; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Resonance; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.920743

Filename

920743