• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2022

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) have saturated the technological market but are still widely used in high-speed and long-distance communication systems. To overcome EDFA saturation and limitations, its erbium-doped fiber is co-doped with other materials such as zirconia and bismuth. This article demonstrates and compares the performance using three different fibers as the gain medium for zirconia-erbium-doped fibers (Zr-EDF), bismuth-erbium-doped fibers (Bi-EDF), and commercial silica-erbium-doped fibers (Si- EDF). The optical amplifier was configured with a double-pass amplification system, with a broadband mirror at the end of its configuration to allow double-pass operation in the system. The important parameters in amplifiers such as optical properties, optical amplification and noise values were also examined and discussed. All three fibers were 0.5 m long and entered with different input signals: 30 dBm for low input and 10 dBm for high input. Zr-EDF turned out to be the most relevant optical amplifier as it had the highest optical gain, longest transmission distance, highest average flatness gain with minimal jitter, and relevant noise figures suitable for the latest communication technology.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.3-8
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• 1993

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.81-96
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• 2002

This paper describes our design of a hybrid amplifier composed of a distributed Raman amplifier and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for C- and L-bands. We characterize the distributed Raman amplifier by numerical simulation based on the experimentally measured Raman gain coefficient of an ordinary single mode fiber transmission line. In single channel amplification, the crosstalk caused by double Rayleigh scattering was independent of signal input power and simply given as a function of the Raman gain. The double Rayleigh scattering induced power penalty was less than 0.1 dB after 1000 km if the on-off Raman gain was below 21 dB. For multiple channel amplification, using commercially available pump laser diodes and fiber components, we determined and optimized the conditions of three-wavelength Raman pumping for an amplification bandwidth of 32 nm for C-band and 34 nm for L-band. After analyzing the conventional erbium-doped fiber amplifier analysis in C-band, we estimated the performance of the hybrid amplifier for long haul optical transmission. Compared with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, the optical signal-to-noise ratio was calculated to be higher by more than 3 dB in the optical link using the designed hybrid amplifier.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.472-476
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• 2020

We have investigated the impact of optical filter bandwidth on the performance of all-optical automatic gain-controlled (AGC) erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). In principle, an optical bandpass filter (OBPF) should be placed within the feedback gain-clamping loop to set the lasing wavelength as well as the passband of the feedback amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in all-optical AGC EDFA. From our measurement results, we found that the power level of feedback ASE with 0.1 nm passband of the optical filter was smaller than the ones with >0.2 nm passband cases. Therefore, the peak-to-peak power variation of the surviving channel with 0.1 nm passband was much larger than the ones with >0.2 nm passband. In addition, no significant difference in the power level of the feedback ASE was observed when the passband of the optical filter was ranging from 0.2 nm to 4.5 nm in our measurements. From these results, we have concluded that the passband of the optical filter should be slightly larger than 0.2 nm by taking into account the effect of feedback ASE power and the efficient use of the EDFA gain spectrum for the lasing ASE peak.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.298-304
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• 2010

The pair-induced quenching (PIQ) effect in a highly doped bismuth oxide-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was theoretically and experimentally investigated. In the theoretical investigation, the bismuth oxide-based EDFA was modeled as a 6-level amplifier system that incorporated clustering-induced concentration quenching, cooperative up-conversion, pump excited state absorption (ESA), and signal ESA. The relative number of paired ions in a highly doped bismuth oxide EDF was estimated to be ~6.02%, determined by a comparison between the theoretical and the experimentally measured gain values. The impacts of the PIQ on the gain and the noise figure were also investigated.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.181-185
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• 1998

에르븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기(EDFA)를 제작하여 장거리 전송 시의 이득, 신호대 잡음비와 대역을 측정하였다. 이득 \ulcorner탄화 되지 않은 EDFA를 recirculating loop에 넣어 장거리 전송 실험을 한 결과 EDFA 20회 통과시에는 3dB 이득 변화를 보이는 대역이 6nm이다. 반면에 이득 평탄화 된 EDFA는 1dB 이득 대역이 22nm 이며, EDFA 100회 통과시에 9nm대역이 5dB 이내에 들게 되어 여러 파장을 동시에 초장거리 전송 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.471-475
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 에르븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기를 이용하여 단일 채널을 증폭할 때의 이득 동특성(gain dynamics)과 다채널을 증폭할 때의 이득 동특성에 대해 논의하였다. 여러 개의 에르븀 첨가 광섬유 증폭기가 연결된 증폭기 체인에서 채널 수의 변화에 의해 입력 광파워가 변할 때의 출력 광파워의 과도 현상(power transients)을 측정하고, 이를 $\mu\textrm{s}$ 이하의 응답 시간을 갖는 펌프 광파워 조절 회로를 이용하여 억제하였다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 마하-젠더 광 변조기와 EDFA(Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier)로 구성된 아날로그 광통신 링크에서 광 변조기에 인가되는 바이어스 전압의 조정을 통해 광통신 링크 출력의 랜덤 지터를 효과적으로 감소시키는 방법에 관하여 연구하였다. 광 변조기의 바이어스를 $0.5\;V_{\pi}$로부터 약 $0.089\;V_{\pi}$로 이동시켰을 때, 10 GHz RF 신호의 이득은 최대 10.65 dB가 증가하였고, 랜덤 지터는 EDFA의 입력 광 파워가 -0.11 dBm일 때 최대 46.5% 감소하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.209-212
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• 1997

실리카가 주 매질인 에르븀 첨가 광증폭기의 1545-1557 nm의 파장 영역에서 이득 스펙트럼 특성과 EDFA를 여러 번 통과하면서 누적되는 특성을 측정, 분석하였다. 파장에 따른 이득 차이가 최소인 이득은 에르븀 첨가 광섬유의 길이가 정해지면 단일하게 결정되고(G$_{0}$), 이득 불균일의 정도는 동작 이득이 G일 때 G$_{0}$-G에 거의 비례하며 비례상수는 0.1~0.2 dB/dB의 값을 갖는다. 에르븀 첨가 광증폭기를 여러 번 지날 때 파장에 따른 이득불균일 및 신호대 잡음비 불균일은 계속 누적되며, 그 양은 통과한 EDFA의 수에 비례한다. 입력 신호광 세기 -20 dBm/ch., 이득 21 dB에서 최적화된 EDFA를 제작하여 파장에 따른 이득 및 잡음지수 특성을 측정한 결과, EDFA 12회 통과 후 파장에 따른 이득차는 5 dB, 잡음지수는 3 dB의 값을 나타냈다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2021

We have evaluated the suppression effect of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation in terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems using a gain-saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The variation of EDFA output signal power has been measured with different amounts of gain saturation and modulation indices of the optical input signal. From the measured results, we have found that the peak-to-peak power variation was decreased drastically below 2 kHz of modulation frequency, in both 3-dB and 6-dB gain compression cases. Then, the power spectral density (PSD) of optical scintillation has been calculated with Butterworth-type transfer function. In the calculation, different levels of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation have been taken into account with different values of the Butterworth cut-off frequency. Finally, the suppression effect of optical scintillation has been estimated with the measured frequency response of the EDFA and the calculated PSD of the optical scintillation. From our estimated results, the atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation could be suppressed efficiently, as long as the EDFA were operated in a deeply gain-saturated region.