Title :
Gain and noise properties of self-saturated erbium doped fiber amplifiers
Author :
Subramaniam, T. ; Mahdi, M.A. ; Adikan, F. R Mahamd ; Poopalan, P. ; Ahmad, H.
Author_Institution :
Telekom Malaysia Photonics Res. Center, Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
An experimental study on the self-saturation phenomena of an erbium doped fiber amplifier was carried out. The self-saturation effect on the variations of the gain and the noise figure properties as the pump wavelength was detuned were studied. A dip of 9.57 dB in the gain spectrum was reduced to 0.52 dB as the signal self-saturation effect takes over the amplifier self-saturation effect
Keywords :
erbium; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; optical saturation; EDFA; amplifier self-saturation; gain; gain spectrum; noise properties; pump wavelength; self-saturated Er doped fiber amplifiers; signal self-saturation; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; High power amplifiers; Laser excitation; Noise figure; Optical filters; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2000. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6355-8
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2000.892303
