Effects of self-saturation in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier

Authors

• M.A. Mahdi
• S. Thirumeni
• P. Poopalan
• S. Selvakennedy
• Faisal Rafiq Mahamd AdikanFollow
• W.Y. Chan
• Harith AhmadFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Abstract

The dependence of erbium-doped fiber amplifier performance on amplifier self-saturation is studied experimentally by tuning the pump wavelength over a 5-nm band centered at 980 nm. Gain and noise figure are degraded at the peak pump absorption wavelength, which shows the strongest effect of amplifier self-saturation. It is shown experimentally that tuning the pump wavelength away from the peak pump absorption provides 1-2 dB improvement in pump-to-signal conversion. The effect of amplifier self-saturation is also dependent on the signal wavelength where high gain and noise figure penalties are obtained at the 1530-nm (+/-5 nm) band. (C) 2000 Academic Press.

Keywords

Gain, Self-Saturation, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

Publication Title

Optical Fiber Technology

ISSN

1068-5200

Recommended Citation

Mahdi, M.A.; Thirumeni, S.; Poopalan, P.; Selvakennedy, S.; Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd; Chan, W.Y.; and Ahmad, Harith, "Effects of self-saturation in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier" (2000). Research Publications (2000 to 2005). 32.
https://knova.um.edu.my/research_publications_2000_2005/32

Divisions

fac_eng

Volume

6

Issue

3

Publisher

Elsevier

Additional Information

Mahdi, MA Thirumeni, S Poopalan, P Selvakennedy, S Adikan, FRM Chan, WY Ahmad, H