Volume 61, Number 1, 93-97, DOI: 10.1007/BF02704513

High gain L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier with two-stage double-pass configuration

S. W. Harun, N. Tamchek, P. Poopalan and H. Ahmad

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Abstract

An experiment on gain enhancement in the long wavelength band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (L-band EDFA) is demonstrated using dual forward pumping scheme in double-pass system. Compared to a single-stage single-pass scheme, the small signal gain for 1580 nm signal can be improved by 13.5 dB. However, a noise figure penalty of 2.9 dB was obtained due to the backward C-band ASE from second stage and the already amplified signal from the first pass that extracting energy from the forward C-band ASE. The maximum gain improvement of 13.7 dB was obtained at a signal wavelength of 1588 nm while signal and total pump powers were fixed at -30 dBm and 92 mW, respectively.

Keywords  Erbium-doped fibre - optical amplifier - L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier - two-stage erbium-doped fiber amplifier - amplified spontaneous emission

PACS No.  42.60.Da

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