Title :
Gain-flatness improvement over C-band employing silica-based borate/alumina-codoped EDF
Author :
Haruna, Tetsuya ; Kakup, M. ; Ishikawa, Shinji ; Mouri, Tetsuya ; Ueno, Masato ; Murata, Takahiro ; Morinaga, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Sumtomo Electr. Ind. Ltd, Japan
Abstract :
Employing borate/alumina-codoped EDF, the relative gain ripple over the C-band has been reduced to less than 10%, which is to our knowledge the record for the gain flatness of C-band silica-based EDFAs.
Keywords :
alumina; boron compounds; doping profiles; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical transmitters; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2:Er2O3; C-band silica-based EDFA; WDM systems; gain-flatness; optical communication; relative gain ripple; silica-based borate/alumina-codoped EDF; Bandwidth; Costs; Degradation; Erbium; Fluorescence; Glass; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical materials;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192964