Title :
Gain-clamped thulium-doped fiber amplifier with a single pump at 1050nm
Author :
Yam, S. ; An, F. ; Marhic, M. ; Kazovsky, L. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Pan, J.
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
The large homogeneous bandwidth of thulium-doped fiber amplifier makes it suitable for optical gain clamping. This is demonstrated experimentally with gain variation of 1.2dB for 15dB input dynamic range, less than 1dB gain ripple over 20nm, without noise figure degradation.
Keywords :
gain control; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical pumping; thulium; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 dB; 1.2 dB; 1050 nm; 15 dB; 20 nm; gain ripple; gain variation; homogeneous bandwidth; input dynamic range; noise figure degradation; optical gain clamping; single pump; thulium-doped fiber amplifier; Bandwidth; Clamps; Degradation; Dynamic range; Noise figure; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248458
