采用PSO算法的S波段EDFA的优化设计

成功地使用粒子群优化(PSO)算法优化设计了多级S波段EDFA,仿真结果表明,输入信号功率为-20 dBm时在1486～1520 nm可实现平坦增益,两级泵浦总功率为380 mW,平均增益可达10 dB以上,增益平坦度小于0.1 dB,噪声系数小于5 dB,满足WDM/DWDM系统的需求.另外,还重点对插入长波长ASE...     

Efficient erbium-doped fiber amplifiers incorporating an opticalisolator

A composite-EDFA configuration which incorporates an optical isolator has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The isolator prevents the build-up of the backward-ASE and results in an amplifier with high gain and near-quantum-limited noise figure (NF). The optimum position of the isolator has been calculated as a function of the pump power so that minimum NF and maximum gain are achieved simultaneously. It is shown that under practical pump powers, the optimized composite EDFA exhibits a gain improvement of about 5 dB and a NF reduction in excess of 1.5 dB when compared with an optimized conventional EDFA. It is also shown that with further optimization the composite EDFA can be employed in a practical fiber link as a pre-amplifier without the use of an input isolator. Finally, a high-gain composite EDFA has been experimentally demonstrated which exhibits a gain of 51 dB (54 dB) and NF of 3.1 dB for only 435 mW (93 mW) of pump power     

具有动态增益均衡特性的低噪声全光增益箝位EDFA

针对全光增益箝位EDFA噪声指数恶化以及用于WDM系统时增益动态变化两个问题,提出具有动态增益均衡特性的低噪声全光增益箝位EDFA,在35 nm范围内,输入信号功率在-40 dBm到0 dBm之间变化时,增益变化被箝制在1 dB范围内,同时保持单波长输入噪声指数<4.5 dB,多波长输入增益谱不平坦度<0.4,噪声指数<5.5 dB,有效解决了以上问题.     

Novel Gain Spectrum Control Method Employing Gain Clamping and Pump Power Adjustment in Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

In this paper, we propose a novel method for controlling the gain spectrum of a thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) in the S-band. The conventional gain spectrum control method used for a silica erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) cannot be applied to TDFAs because of the complicated fluctuation of the TDFA gain spectrum. Our proposed method controls the gain spectrum by a combination of gain clamping and pump power adjustment. The algorithm for the method is as simple as that for the conventional EDFA gain spectrum control method. Furthermore, we describe a function for correcting the gain excursion generated by the incorporation of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) at a signal monitoring photodiode (PD). We achieved a gain excursion of 0.35 dB against a total input signal power of 32 to 2 dBm.     

Erbium-doped fiber amplifier with 54 dB gain and 3.1 dB noisefigures

It is shown that for practical pump powers (<100 mW) a combination of high gain (>33 dB) and low noise figure (3 dB) cannot simultaneously be achieved with a conventional codirectionally pumped EDFA. However, using a codirectionally pumped composite EDFA incorporating an isolator overcomes the problem, and an amplifier with 51 dB (54 dB) gain and 3.1 dB noise figure (NF) for only 45 mW (93 mW) of pump power is demonstrated     

Performances of Erbium‐Doped Fiber Amplifier Using 1530nm‐Band Pump for Long Wavelength Multichannel Amplification

The performance of a long wavelength‐band erbium‐doped fiber amplifier (L‐band EDFA) using 1530nm‐band pumping has been studied. A 1530nm‐band pump source is built using a tunable light source and two C‐band EDFAs in cascaded configuration, which is able to deliver a maximum output power of 23dBm. Gain coefficient and noise figure (NF) of the L‐band EDFA are measured for pump wavelengths between 1530nm and 1560nm. The gain coefficient with a 1545nm pump is more than twice as large as with a 1480nm pump. It indicates that the L‐band EDFA consumes low power. The noise figure of 1530nm pump is 6.36dB at worst, which is 0.75dB higher than that of 1480nm pumped EDFA. The optimum pump wavelength range to obtain high gain and low NF in the 1530nm band appears to be between 1530nm and 1540nm. Gain spectra as a function of a pump wavelength have bandwidth of more than 10nm so that a broadband pump source can be used as 1530nm‐band pump. The L‐band EDFA is also tested for WDM signals. Flat Gain bandwidth is 32nm from 1571.5 to 1603.5nm within 1dB excursion at input signal of –10dBm/ch. These results demonstrate that 1530nm‐band pump can be used as a new efficient pump source for L‐band EDFAs.     

Gain control in L-band EDFAs by monitoring backward travelingC-band ASE

A novel and simple technique for gain flatness control is reported for gain shifted, long wavelength band (L-band) erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). Utilization of the backward traveling amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in the C-band is analyzed with respect to controlling the gain tilt observed in the L-band when the total input power of the EDFA is changed. It is shown that a gain flatness of 0.6 dB/30 nm can be achieved over a dynamic range greater than 10 dB by using the backward traveling ASE power in the C-band as a monitor to adjust the copropagating pump power of the EDFA. The proposed technique eliminates the need to extract the output signals from the monitored ASE signal, demonstrating the suitability and simplicity of the proposed technique for wavelength division multiplexed applications     

Broad-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier with double-passconfiguration

We demonstrate a broad-band silica-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with double-pass configuration. The signal gain and noise figure are obtained more than 24 dB and less than 6 dB, respectively, for 1526-1562 nm and 1569-1605 nm. The same signal gain can be achieved with 53% less pump power and 45% shorter erbium-doped fiber length, compared to a conventional parallel type EDFA. Furthermore, the noise figure and power conversion efficiency are improved for the wavelength range     

Low-noise extended L-band phosphorus co-doped silicate EDFA consisting of novel two-stage gain-flattened gain blocks

A novel low-noise extended L-band silicate erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) is proposed, consisting of two novel gain-flattened gain blocks for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) signals from 1562.2 to 1619.6 nm. Each gain block consists of three isolated phosphorus/ alumina co-doped silicate EDFs, an intermediate embedded gain flattening filter (GFF), a short wavelength pump laser diode, and a pump bypass and/or a recycle path. The proposed EDFA, which uses only three pump laser diodes, has achieved noise figures as much as 6.1 dB lower than those realised by an earlier EDFA, when its intermediate optical attenuator has large signal losses and the input signal power is low.     

Actively gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier over 35 nm byusing all-fiber acoustooptic tunable filters

We demonstrate an actively gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) using an all-fiber gain-flattening filter with electronically controllable spectral profiles. A good gain flatness (<0.7 dB) over a broad wavelength span (>35 nm) is achieved for a wide range of operational gain levels as well as input signal and pump powers     

New pump wavelength of 1540-nm band for long-wavelength-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (L-band EDFA)

A long-wavelength-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (L-band EDFA) using a pump wavelength source of 1540-nm band has been extensively investigated from a small single channel input signal to high-power wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signals. The small-signal gain coefficient of 1545-nm pumping among the 1540-nm band is 2.25 times higher compared to the conventional 1480-nm pumping. This improvement in gain coefficient is not limited by the pumping direction. The cause for this high coefficient is explained by analyzing forward- and backward-amplified spontaneous emission spectra. The gain spectra as a function of a pump wavelength suggest that a broadband pump source as well as a single wavelength pump can be used as a 1540-nm-band pump. In the experiment for high-power WDM signals, the power conversion efficiency for 256 WDM channel input is 48.5% with 1545-nm pumping. This result shows more than 20% improvement compared with the previous highest value for the L-band EDFA. Finally, the 1545-nm bidirectionally pumped EDFA is applied as a second stage amplifier in an in-line amplifier of an optical communication link with a 1480-nm pumped first stage EDFA, in which the input power of the second-stage EDFA is +2.2 dBm. The power conversion efficiency yields a 38% improvement without noise figure degradation compared with the case of 1480-nm pumping.     

Optimization of pump and signal powers for wavelength converters based on FWM in semiconductor optical amplifiers

We investigate the effect of input pump and signal powers on the noise performance and intersymbol interference (ISI) in a frequency-converter based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier. We demonstrate that there is an input pump power at which the noise figure of the frequency converter is a minimum, and a corresponding input signal power for which the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a maximum. We report bit-error-rate measurements which show that there is a trade-off between maximizing the output SNR, and minimizing intersymbol interference in the SOA. Consequently, the power penalty incurred in the frequency conversion can be minimized by careful selection of the input signal power. We show that power penalties of less than 1 dB are achievable.     

Performance optimization of radio-on-fiber systems employing erbium doped fiber amplifier for optical single sideband signals considering intermodulation distortion

The performances of radio on fiber (RoF) systems with a dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) are optimized by numerical equations including the third order intermodulation (IM3) as well as amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise. We investigate a signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) considering fiber dispersion with respect to an input signal power and an EDFA gain in both noise-dominant and third order intermodulation (IM3)-dominant cases. We also verify that the numerical analysis results are well matched with those of a commercial simulator, VPItransmissionMaker. In the analysis results, the optimum input signal power for the maximum SNDR of a RoF system with EDFA was reduced over 8 dB compared with that without EDFA. The dramatic reduction of IM3 power at a receiver was resulted from this decrement of input signal power. Thus, the maximum SNDR of the system with EDFA was obtained over 17 dB at 40 km fiber compared with that of the system without EDFA. In addition, the results showed that the SNDR was efficiently improved by EDFA in the noise-dominant case, while the SNDR improvement was negligible by EDFA in the IM3 dominant case.     

Comparison between regenerative-feedback and cofeedback gain-clamped EDFA

The erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with regenerative feedback is compared with the cofeedback scheme. Without the bandpass filter, the injected signal experiences regenerative amplification and results in a higher signal gain. Such an above-threshold regenerative amplifier also exhibits a lower noise figure due to a higher inversion for the transition corresponding to the signal wavelength of 1550 nm. A near quantum-limited noise figure of 3.1 dB is achieved at the maximum pump power of 134.5 mW, showing nearly complete inversion at the EDF input end in the regenerative-feedback scheme. A low (<10/sup -10/) bit-error rate has been achieved with saturation input signal power above -12 dBm.     

Modeling of noise in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers in the saturatedregime

We have made a theoretical study of the noise figure of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers in the saturated regime. The noise figures of amplifiers subjected to specific gain and gain compression requirements were calculated for various amplifier lengths. The resulting noise figures together with the required pump and input signal powers map out all possible solutions given constraints on gain, compression, pump power, output signal power, and noise figure. In some cases, requirements on the output signal power prohibit any solutions. A way to solve this problem is the introduction of a post-amplifier loss. For this configuration, two possible solutions exist, which collapse into one solution at a certain critical loss, under which there exist no solutions. When the impact of amplified spontaneous emission is neglected in the model, only one solution is obtained, and the critical loss is much smaller than when the amplified spontaneous emission is included in the model. We conclude that amplified spontaneous emission generally has to be taken into account, even when the gain is as low as 10 dB, to accurately predict the noise performance of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers     

A low-noise L-band EDFA with a 1500-nm Raman-pumped dispersion-compensating fiber section

This report presents a low-noise L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with a dispersion-compensating Raman amplifier. With an optimized prestage and 1500-nm Raman-pump laser diodes, the proposed EDFA achieved an internal noise figure of less than 4.5 dB over a 33-nm flat gain bandwidth within 0.5 dB at -2 dBm of large signal input power.     

Improvement of gain and noise figure in double-pass L-band EDFA by incorporating a fiber Bragg grating

An obvious improvement on both the gain and noise figure (NF) is demonstrated in the new double-pass L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) with incorporating a fiber Bragg grating (FBG). Compared with the conventional L-band EDFAs, the gain is improved by about 6 dB in the new configuration for a 1580-nm signal with an input power of -30 dBm at 60 mW of 980-nm pump power. It is important that the NF is greatly reduced in the new configuration, as the FBG greatly compresses the backward amplified spontaneous emission. For the economical utility of pump power and erbium-doped fiber length, such a configuration may be a very competitive candidate in the practical applications of L-band EDFAs.     

Coupled structure for wide-band EDFA with gain and noise figureimprovements from C to L-band ASE injection

We propose a novel structure for C plus L-band silica based wide-band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (W-EDFA's), which use backward amplified spontaneous emission from the C-band EDFA as the pump-mediating injection source for the L-band amplifier unit. Experimental results show gain and noise figure improvements of over 2.6 dB and 0.6 dB, respectively, at -3.5 dBm of L-band input signal power. Spatially resolved numerical analysis confirms the pump-mediating effect of C-band backward ASE in the L-band EDFA for the gain and noise figure improvement, which also provides better understanding on the dynamics of C-band injection seed methods     

掺铒光纤放大器增益和噪声研究

文章首先介绍了掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA)的结构和工作原理,然后运用能级理论和激光原理,深入全面地分析了影响EDFA增益和噪声的主要因素,得出了EDFA增益和噪声与泵浦功率、泵浦方式、输入信号光功率和掺铒光纤长度等关系的一些重要结论,并且通过实验进一步验证了这些结论;提出了提高EDFA增益,减小噪声系数的方法;最后根据文中得出的结论,设计了一种高增益低噪声的C波段EDFA光路,该光路已经应用于工程实践中.     

Effect of pump laser noise on an erbium-doped fiber-amplified signal

The effect of pump laser noise on erbium-doped fiber-amplifier (EDFA) output was investigated using an optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) as a high-power pump. Measurements included pump and amplified signal relative intensity noise (RIN) in frequency and time domains as well as gain spectral measurements and 10-Gb/s Q-factor tests, all under several levels of backreflection to the pump laser. Time-domain low-frequency noise (<50 kHz) was observed to increase with increasing backreflection. With 150-mW OPSL output power and -28 dB backreflection, temporal RIN was /spl sim/3.4% for the pump and /spl sim/2.2% for the amplified signal. At a maximum pump power of 450 mW, RIN was 1.4% and 1.1%, respectively. The measured Q-factor of 12.5 dB at 10 Gb/s showed less than 0.5-dB penalty compared to a back-to-back system measurement of 13 dB. Power budget and operating specifications of an OPSL-pumped multicoil EDFA were also evaluated.