Amplified spontaneous emission in high-power, Er3+-Yb3+ codoped fiber amplifiers for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1198-1203

  Yahel, Eldad ^a   Hardy, Amos ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; POSITIVE IONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; YTTERBIUM;

NOISE FIGURE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0038577997     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001198     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. N. Park, P. Wysocki, R. Pedrazzani, S. Grubb, D. DiGiovanni, and K. Walker, "High-power Er-Yb-doped fiber amplifier with multichannel gain flatness within 0.2 dB over 14 nm," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 8, 1148-1150 (1996).
2. F. Di. Pasquale, G. Grasso, F. Meli, G. Sacchi, and S. Turolla, "23 dBm output power Er/Yb codoped fiber amplifier for WDM signals in the 1575-1605 nm wavelength region," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Vol. 2 of Technical Digest Series (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, N.J., 1999), pp. 4-6, paper WA2.
3. G. Nykolak, P. F. Szajowski, J. Jacques, H. M. Presby, J. A. Abate, G. E. Tourgee, and J. J. Auborn, "4 × 2.5 Gb/s 4.4 km WDM free-space optical link at 1550 nm," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Vol. 2 of Technical Digest Series (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, N.J., 1999), paper PD11/1-3.
4. E. Desurvire and J. R. Simpson, "Amplification of spontaneous emission in erbium doped single mode fibers," J. Lightwave Technol. 7, 835-845 (1989).
5. E. Desurvire, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications (Wiley, New York, 1994).
6. A. Bjarklev, Optical Fiber Amplifiers: Design and System Applications (Artech House, Norwood, Mass., 1993).
7. 3+-doped silica waveguide amplifiers," J. Lightwave Technol. 13, 740-743 (1995).
8. A. A. Hardy and R. Oron, "Amplified spontaneous emission and Rayleigh backscattering in strongly pumped fiber amplifiers," J. Lightwave Technol. 18, 1865-1873 (1998).
9. R. Oron and A. A. Hardy, "Rayleigh backscattering and amplified spontaneous emission in high-power ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 695-701 (1999).
10. M. Soderlund, S. Tammela, P. Poyhonen, M. Leppihalme, and N. Peyghambarian, "Amplified spontaneous emission in cladding-pumped L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 13, 22-24 (2001).
11. 3+ codoped fiber amplifiers for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 1189-1197 (2003).
12. P. C. Becker, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology (Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1999).