Gain and noise penalty for detuned 980 nm pumping or erbium-dopedfiber power amplifiers |
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Authors: | Pedersen B Chirravuri J Miniscalco WJ |
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Affiliation: | Electromagn. Inst., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby ; |
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Abstract: | The impact of altering the fiber length and pump wavelength on the gain and noise performance of erbium-doped fiber power amplifiers pumped in the 980-nm band is examined. A gain penalty of <0.5 dB was experimentally observed over an 18 nm pump wavelength range. Theoretical analysis indicates that increasing the numerical aperture (NA) from 0.15 to 0.25 significantly improves the tolerance for a given gain penalty but has little effect on the noise figure. For a given fiber length, the noise figure increases by 0.1 dB for each 3 nm the pump wavelength deviates from 979 nm |
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