Fundamental design of a distributed erbium-doped fiber amplifier for long-distance transmission

Author

Rottwitt, Karsten ; Bjarklev, Anders ; Povlsen, Jorn Hedegaard ; Lumholt, Ole ; Rasmussen, Thomas P.

Author_Institution

Center for Broadband Telecommun., Electromagn. Inst. Tech., Denmark Univ., Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

10

Issue

11

fYear

1992

fDate

11/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1544

Lastpage

1552

Abstract

Comprehensive theoretical analysis on the design of a distributed erbium-doped fiber amplifier for long-distance transmission has been carried out, using a highly accurate model. The dispersion of the optical fiber as a function of the numerical aperture and the cutoff wavelength is included. Designs based on a bidirectional pumping scheme are evaluated, taking nonlinearities into account. The optimum value of the numerical aperture will be evaluated for cutoff wavelengths where the propagating pump power is single moded. For distances between each pumping station in the region between 10 and 100 km, the optimum ratio of copropagating and counterpropagating pump power will also be evaluated

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical pumping; 10 to 100 km; Er doped fiber amplifier; bidirectional pumping scheme; copropagating pump power; counterpropagating pump power; cutoff wavelength; fundamental design; long-distance transmission; numerical aperture; propagating pump power; pumping station; Apertures; Distributed amplifiers; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Kerr effect; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.184892

Filename

184892