Al-Azzawi, Alabbas A and Almukhtar, Aya A and Reddy, P H and Dutta, D and Das, Shyamal and Dhar, A and Paul, Mukul Chandra and Ahmad, H and Harun, S W (2019) Wide-band flat-gain optical amplifier using Hafnia and zirconia erbium co-doped fibres in double-pass parallel configuration. Journal of Modern Optics, 66 (16). pp. 1711-1716. ISSN 0950-0340

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Abstract

A new compact and wide-band erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) was demonstrated by combining Hafnia-bismuth Erbium co-doped fibre (HB-EDF) and zirconia-yttria-aluminum Erbium co-doped fibre (Zr-EDF) as a hybrid gain medium, in parallel double-pass configuration. The proposed amplifier comprises a 0.5 m long HB-EDF and 4 m long Zr-EDF optimized for C- and L-band operations, respectively. The HB-EDF and Zr-EDF has erbium ion concentration of 12,500 ppm and 2800 ppm, respectively. At -10 dBm input signal, a wide-band flat gain of 15.7 dB is achieved with gain fluctuation of less than 1.5 dB within a wavelength region from 1525 to 1600 nm. Compared to same configuration of HB-EDF and Zr-EDF amplifiers which are using two pieces of HB-EDF and Zr-EDF, respectively with the same total amount of erbium ions, the proposed EDFA with hybrid gain medium provides even better performances in term of flat gain, bandwidth and noise figure.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Processing Science
Divisions:	Fiber Optics and Photonics
Depositing User:	Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2019 05:48
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2019 05:48
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4686

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