New EDF design for high power and low nonlinearity applications

Author

Seo, H.K. ; Kwon, K.D. ; Ko, S.B. ; Jeon, J.U. ; Jeong, K.T.

Author_Institution

Access Network Lab., Korea Telecom, Taejeon, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

384

Abstract

A new EDF with mode field diameter of 9 μm and effective area of 65 μm² at signal band 1550 nm is presented. Since large effective area suppresses the nonlinearities of the EDF, the output power limit of EDFA can be improved, and the splice loss is significantly reduced to less than 0.1 dB. This can be implemented by adding a side ring core to the conventional simple step core EDF; this additional core can control the spectral field profile of the EDF.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; power amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1550 nm; DWDM; EDF design; EDFA; dense wavelength division multiplexing; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; high power applications; low nonlinearity applications; nonlinearity suppression; optical fiber networks; output power limit; side ring core; spectral field profile; splice loss; Absorption; Erbium; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Power generation; Refractive index; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989677

Filename

989677