AN EFFICIENT L-BAND ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER WITH ZIRCONIA-YTTRIA-ALUMINUM CO-DOPED SILICA FIBER

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作者
Almukhtar, A. A. [1 ]
Al-Azzawi, A. A. [1 ]
Das, S. [2 ]
Dhar, A. [2 ]
Paul, M. C. [2 ]
Jusoh, Z. [3 ]
Harun, S. W. [1 ,4 ]
Yasin, M. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Malaya, Dept Elect Engn, Photon Engn Lab, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
[2] CSIR, Fiber Opt & Photon Div, Cent Glass & Ceram Res Inst, 196 Raja SC Mullick Rd, Kolkata 700032, India
[3] Univ Teknol Mara Terengganu, Fac Elect Engn, Dungun 23000, Terengganu, Malaysia
[4] Airlangga Univ, Fac Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Surabaya 60115, Indonesia
来源
JOURNAL OF NON-OXIDE GLASSES | 2018年 / 10卷 / 03期
关键词
L-band optical amplifier; Zirconia-Yttria-Aluminum erbium Co-Doped Fiber; flat-gain EDFA;
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摘要
For the first time, double-pass erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is demonstrated to provide L-band amplification using only a single gain medium of Zirconia-Yttria-Aluminum erbium Co-Doped Fiber (Zr-EDF). The gain medium of the proposed amplifier combines both of Zr and Al ions to obtains a high erbium ion concentration of 2800 ppm (parts per million) and absorption loss of 14.5 dB/m at 980 nm. At high input power of -10 dBm, a flat gain of 15.9 dB is achieved for the optimum length of 4 m with gain fluctuation of less than 1.5 dB within a wide-band wavelength region from 1550 to 1600 nm. The corresponding noise figure is maintained below 12 dB within the flat-gain region. In addition, a flat gain of 9.9 dB with gain fluctuation of less than 1 dB is also obtained for Zr-EDF long of 6 m within L-band region. Compared with the conventional silica based erbium-doped fiber amplifier (Si-EDFA), It was found that the proposed EDFA, which uses a shorter length of gain medium, can achieve slightly higher gain values and broader bandwidth, as well as a lower noise figure.
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