Characterization of lasing-oscillation direction in optical gain-clamped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Abstract
In this paper, the effect of ring-laser propagating direction in gain-clamped erbium-doped fiber amplifiers is investigated. The optical amplifier architecture under study is based on ring-laser cavity. The strongest gain-clamping effect is obtained for bi-traveling ring-laser in the optical amplifier. On the other hand, the low-noise figure operation can be achieved by allowing the ring-laser to co-travel with the signal propagation. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Erbium, Optical amplifier, Gain clamped, Ring laser
Divisions
fac_eng
Publication Title
Optics & Laser Technology
Volume
39
Issue
5
Publisher
Elsevier
Additional Information
Mahdi, M. A. Adikan, F. R. Mahamd Subramaniam, T. Ahmad, H.
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