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Efficient erbium-doped fibre amplifiers incorporating an optical isolator

Efficient erbium-doped fibre amplifiers incorporating an optical isolator
Efficient erbium-doped fibre amplifiers incorporating an optical isolator
A composite-EDFA configuration which incorporates an optical isolator has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The isolator prevents the build-up of the backward-ASE and results in an amplifier with high gain and near-quantum-limited noise figure (NF). The optimum position of the isolator has been calculated as a function of the pump power so that minimum NF and maximum gain are achieved simultaneously. It is shown that under practical pump powers, the optimized composite EDFA exhibits a gain improvement of about 5 dB and a NF reduction in excess of 1.5 dB when compared with an optimized conventional EDFA. It is also shown that with further optimization the composite EDFA can be employed in a practical fiber link as a pre-amplifier without the use of an input isolator. Finally, a high-gain composite EDFA has been experimentally demonstrated which exhibits a gain of 51 dB (54 dB) and NF of 3.1 dB for only 435 mW (93 mW) of pump power.
0018-9197
472-480
Zervas, M.N.
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Laming, R.I.
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Payne, D.N.
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Zervas, M.N., Laming, R.I. and Payne, D.N. (1995) Efficient erbium-doped fibre amplifiers incorporating an optical isolator. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 31 (3), 472-480. (doi:10.1109/3.364402).

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A composite-EDFA configuration which incorporates an optical isolator has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The isolator prevents the build-up of the backward-ASE and results in an amplifier with high gain and near-quantum-limited noise figure (NF). The optimum position of the isolator has been calculated as a function of the pump power so that minimum NF and maximum gain are achieved simultaneously. It is shown that under practical pump powers, the optimized composite EDFA exhibits a gain improvement of about 5 dB and a NF reduction in excess of 1.5 dB when compared with an optimized conventional EDFA. It is also shown that with further optimization the composite EDFA can be employed in a practical fiber link as a pre-amplifier without the use of an input isolator. Finally, a high-gain composite EDFA has been experimentally demonstrated which exhibits a gain of 51 dB (54 dB) and NF of 3.1 dB for only 435 mW (93 mW) of pump power.

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Published date: 1995

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Local EPrints ID: 78278
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78278
ISSN: 0018-9197
PURE UUID: 12e94920-1e9d-4d77-b6b2-661ab76ecb7b
ORCID for M.N. Zervas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-4059

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
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Author: M.N. Zervas ORCID iD
Author: R.I. Laming
Author: D.N. Payne

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