Performance of optical automatic gain control EDFA with dual-oscillating control lasers
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The authors present a simple configuration for dual-oscillating lasers gain control erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) in which dual-oscillating lasers are formed by two pairs of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). Experimental results show that dual-oscillating lasers dramatically reduce steady and transient gain variations caused by spectral hole burning and relaxation oscillations, and the dual-oscillating lasers gain controlled EDFAs operate satisfactorily with channel s add/drop frequency up to 43 kHz which is significantly larger than that with single-oscillating laser control. Furthermore, we present detail performance of the gain control EDFAs with different dual-oscillating control lasers. Experimental results show that the function of different dual-oscillating lasers is similar. Thus dual-oscillating lasers can be chosen with large spectral space in order not to affect the signals in optical communication window. 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V. PACS: 42.55.wd; 42.60.Rn; 42.81.Wg
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