The field of optical communications is moving toward the realization of photonic networks with wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) utilizing the full bandwidth of optical fibers. Conventionally, an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are used for amplifying an optical signal in optical communications. SOAs can contribute to this and offer the key a...

Erbium-doped Y203 integrated optical amplifiers are designed for low-threshold operation and 3dB amplification. The most important design parameter for minimal threshold, the erbium concentration, is found to have an optimum value of 0.35 at% for a given waveguide structure with 1.0dBcm -1 background loss. The corresponding threshold power is 7 mW. The pump power to obtain 3dB gain is found to ...

Supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear fiber pumped by noise-like pulses from an erbium-doped fiber ring laser is investigated. To generate ultrabroad spectra, a fiber amplifier is used to boost the power launched into the highly nonlinear fiber. After amplification, not only the average power of the noise-like pulses is enhanced but the spectrum of the pulses is also broadened due to ...

A tunable, gain-clamped (GC) double-pass Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with a linear laser-cavity configuration has been demonstrated. It solves the problems existing in the conventional linear-cavity GC-EDFA based on two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), in which the clamped-gain is very difficult to be tuned. In the new GC-EDFA, the lasing oscillation for clamping the gain is produced in a l...

A radiation resistant optical fiber used in a broadband source is presented. Both ASE source and Fiber Optical Gyroscope (FOG) commonly used in space missions, suffer from failures and degradation after long term exposure to radiative environment. The aim of this article is to present the results of our investigation on fiber and ASE source architecture in order to design a Radiation Resistant ...

Introduction The use of the long-wavelength-band (Lband) is attractive for both increasing the capacity of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems and has been used in WDM transmission experiments at over 1 Tb/s. Recently, a gain bandwidth of about 80nm has been achieved by integrating the L-band EDFA in parallel with conventional band (Cband) EDFA [1]. Moreover, the L-band EDFAs will ma...

Based on a theoretical erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) model, we have proposed an application of disturbance observer(DOB) with proportional/integral/differential(PID) controller to EDFA for minimizing gain-transient time of wavelength -division-multiplexing (WDM) multi channels in optical amplifier in channel add/drop networks. We have dramatically reduced the gain-transient time to less t...

In this article, different amplifiers such as erbium doped fiber amplifier, Raman amplifier and semiconductor optical amplifier, have been investigated in inter-satellite links on optical wireless communication system. It has been observed that EDFA performs better at long range than Raman and SOA amplification while later mentioned amplifiers perform well in the context of less distances. Q-Fa...

A 197.2THz (1520.2nm) ITU-T grid distributed feedback (DFB) diode laser is frequency stabilized at 197.198THz by 1ocking its second harmonic (SH) signal on the rubidium 5S1/27S1/2 two-photon transition at 394.396THz (760.1 nm). With 100mW from the DFB diode laser and amplifying by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier, we obtain an SH power of 15mW using a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) wa...