Al-Azzawi, Alabbas A and Almukhtar, Aya A and Reddy, P H and Das, S and Dhar, A and Paul, Mukul Chandra and Arof, H and Ahmad, H and Harun, S W (2019) An efficient wideband hafnia-bismuth erbium co-doped fiber amplifier with flat-gain over 80 nm wavelength span. Optical Fiber Technology, 48. pp. 186-193. ISSN 1068-5200

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Abstract

A new wideband erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is proposed and demonstrated, utilizing a newly fabricated hafnia-bismuth erbium co-doped fiber (HB-EDF) as a gain medium. The proposed amplifier is tested in both double-pass series and parallel configurations, using 22 cm and 150 cm long HB-EDFs to realize amplification in C and L-band wavelength region, respectively. Both series and parallel configurations obtained a wideband operation at wavelength region from 1520 to 1610 nm. At input signal power of -10 dBm, the parallel HB-EDFA achieved a flat gain of 12.1 dB with a gain ripple of less than 2 dB, along the wavelength region of 80 nm from 1525 to 1605 nm. Within the flat gain region, the noise figure was less than 11.8 dB. Overall, the parallel HB-EDFA has a better performance than the series HB-EDFA.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Processing Science
Divisions:	Fiber Optics and Photonics
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2019 12:35
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2019 12:35
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4542

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