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CWJ3 Fig. 1 . Sclicmatic fos <Itwo-stage &xiblc-pass palarimtioil maintaining El)l>A.
97 i
inseiisitive to tlic distsibution cif punp p w c r ,
iii mntrasl to single ~ m s sdcsigns, whcrc die
piimp pnwcr of i l i c final srage is critical. Fur..
thcrmnrc, while excess loss near the amplifier
ouipiit directly reduces the output piiwcr by 1
dT! per dB loss, additional atteniiatiiin in the
loss iriscnsitivc r-egioir (see Pig. I ) oftlie doulile-
p;iss has little ctlect on net output piiwcr, as
Inng as tlie amplifier coii~inuesto operate in
saturation. 'The iinp;ict nf attciiiiation in this
region w a s measured to I i c less t h i 0.2 dU
cllange i i i output power per dB of attenuation.
Conscqiiently. advaiitagcous elements such
as a narrow band filter andlor WDM pump
moltiplexers can bc inscrted into the design in
the loss insensitive rcginn wilh negligible
pnwcr penalty ;kt the output.
A narriiw band filter ~ " ~ o v cout-[if-lxind
s 1imiling ihc bandwidth nfWDM syslciiis is the
ASE that ciimpctcs with the signal for gain,
enabling ihc ;implificr to saturate a t lower in-
put power lcvels as shown i n Figures 2 ;ind 3.
'The filter alsii niakcs the aunplifier inorc stable
by increasing tlie thrcshnld olhsing at t h e ASl7
pc;ik thus reducing the risk ofpotentially dam-
aging 100 W class Qswitclied pulses. Thcse
features riiakc the double-pass clcsigii iiiorc
riiIiiist and fault-tolerant than tlie single-pass
equivalents.
Adding a 148011.550 111nWIIM enables d u a l
wavelength pumping strategies with little pen-
nlty. Since the nptimiim erliiiun lengths for
1480 iiin pumping are roughly twice those Cor
980 ~ i i nthis
, dcsign caii bc driven ai 980 11111,
1480 mi,or Iioth p i n p wavclcngths with high
ellicicncy. 'This provides addiiional seduii-
dancy and fall-back mniles of opcratiiin that
are im~xir'ant for higli-rclialiility tcrresirial,
submarine, and free-space systems. It is par-
ticularly aitractive to include 14x0 iini pump-
ing for HlIPh's used in space laser communi-
cations doc til radiatiiin induced losses in
erbium doped fibcr, wliicli arc substantially
higher at sliortcr wavelengths.
Erbium Erbium
1
k-,555
W.rolanslh. I"
lJL0
, ;irn
IS65
CWJ3 Pig. 3 . Filtered and unlillcrcil doiililc-
pass EI)I:A milpiit spcctla. As input sigiial lcvcls
diniiiiish, net gain incrcas
can occnr at the ASE prak
tcrcrlspeitra UI the kit. S u c h instabililics can lead t h e ion-idcal wavelength ilemultiplexing
to damaging .- 100 W (>-switched piilses. For tlic
fillcrcd HDFA (shown o n the right), as input sig-
n a l levcls diminish, n c l piin outside of tlic liltcr wavelength~seleclive couplcr~os a widebuid
pass halid iiicicses as the single p i s s gain (G:,/,:) fiber Uragg grating (FU(~).'TIiis wasted region
No sporadic lasing oc~iiisat I h c 1532 n i i i AS1
peak, cvc~ia t low - 22 dlhn input levels.
In sum~iiary,wc have prcscnted ii llexiblc
and latilt tolerant single-polarizalioii EDFA
design nnadc frnm commerci;illy-availahle
componenls that can bc puiiipcd using both
980 nni and 1480 iiin wavelengths. I3y taking
advantage of a kiss-inscnsitive rcgiiin iii the
ilodile-pass design w e have improved perlor-
Loss insensitive region
~iiaiiccand stability while mainlaining high
cllicieiicy end oulpui po~vcr'.1)ctailcd perlor-
inlance rcsults and design features will Iic prc-
sentcd.
1. D.O. Caplair, M.L. Stevuis, U.M. Borii-
son, and J.E. l<aulinaun, "High-Scnsitivity
v;iriable-rate traiisiiiit/rccci\,e arcliitcc-
LEOS '99, 'iw 0003, 1999.
2. I:. Ilakiiiii, H.S. Kintzer, R.S. Bniidurant,
"High-power single-polarizatioii EUI:A
with wavelength multiplexed puiiips,"
C L K ) '98, CWKI, 1998.
3. Y. Tasliiro, 11. 'L'achibana, A. I:ujisaki, H.
Ogoshi, "High-power erliiuiii-doped libcr
aniplifier puniped by wavelength multi-
plexed sc~nici~niluctiir lascr dhide unit,"
Optical l : i h Ci~miiiiinicatioii,01X: 97,
lip. 107-lox.
CWJ4 i1:15 am
Spectrally efficient 1-C band EDFA
having a continuous inter-band channel
region using sampled FBGs
.'1 Xie, Z. Pan, A.1:. Willner, E. Salik,*
V. (;rubsky,"** I). Skiroiluliov,*
J. I:ciiilierg,*,*- Dept. uf'Electriarl Eiigiwci,r-ing-
Syslelns, Uiliv. ii/Sout/:cri: Ca~iJoriiici,Los
One o l ~ h ~iinst
c priimising techniqucs fnr cx-
L-C. band silica-based EDPA1 in which the sig-
n a l s arc split a i l c l passed through a p m i l l e l
conliguralion, including a convc~itionalHIFA
(C-band) lor signals ranging t'riii~i-1530 io
,570
-1565 IIIII, iiiid an L-liand EULA for signals
ranging from '-1.565 io -1600 mi. One key
liiiiitation of the L-(: Iiand amplifier is the
"dead-zonei' lictwcen ilie bands where no sig-
nd chaiinels can be trausmittcd. 'this is due to
which iiiiist occur bctwecii the I, iiiid (: band
scgioiis at the inpiit to tlie amplifier using a
ll.'is. imged
.. fiom 5-16 iiiii?~~ aiid rcpresents ii
signilicant arid poteiitially unacccptablc iiiii-
plifier nvcrlicad.
We rcpnrt a nictlind and demonstration fnr
a spcctrally~clficientL-C band [!DI'A thai uti-
lim tlie eiitirc wavclcngth range covering tlic
cninplctc sei o l L iiiid (; bands, Iiy using
samplcd-I:lK;s having reilectii~n rcsniimces
throughout the I, xid C bands to clficieiitly
separate the two bands. Althougll such devices
may not be suitable as in-line amplifiers i n very