Complex Susceptibility of Saturated Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

Author

Foster, Scott

Author_Institution

Maritime Oper. Div., Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Edinburgh

Volume

19

Issue

12

fYear

2007

fDate

6/15/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

895

Lastpage

897

Abstract

It is shown that the real part of the complex susceptibility of saturated erbium-doped fibers is fully characterized by the gain and a pair of readily determined material parameters. This result highlights an inconsistency in the standard theory, which is readily resolved. Explicit values for the linewidth broadening coefficient, which determines the rate of change of refractive index with gain, are presented for an erbium-doped fiber for the first time, based on theoretical inference from measured gain characteristics

Keywords

erbium; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical fibre amplifiers; optical saturation; refractive index; spectral line broadening; complex susceptibility; erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; erbium-doped fiber lasers; linewidth broadening coefficient; optical saturation; refractive index; Distributed feedback devices; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.896625

Filename

4212156