A novel two-stage erbium amplified spontaneous emission fiber source with 80-nm bandwidth

Xiulin Wang; Hai Ming; Wencai Huang

doi:10.1117/12.634305

5 December 2005 A novel two-stage erbium amplified spontaneous emission fiber source with 80nm bandwidth

Xiulin Wang, Hai Ming, Wencai Huang

Proceedings Volume 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II; 601948 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.634305
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China

Abstract

In this paper, a practical two-stage scheme is suggested for generating a C+L-band erbium-doped fiber amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) broadband light source. A considerable power increase of the L-band ASE spectrum is achieved by injecting the C-band ASE into the long section erbium-doped fiber. The C+L-band ASE source is obtained by combining the enhanced L-band ASE with the C-band ASE from two stages respectively. A spectrum flat ASE source with nearly 80nm bandwidth and about 15.9dBm output power is obtained with a total pump power of 180mW. Namely, the pump conversion efficiency is about 21.6%. Such a broadband incoherent light source is desirable for various applications in some areas like sliced wavelength- division multiplexed local-access networks, characteristic measurement for dense wavelength-division multiplexed components, and fiber-optic sensor systems etc.

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Xiulin Wang, Hai Ming, and Wencai Huang "A novel two-stage erbium amplified spontaneous emission fiber source with 80nm bandwidth", Proc. SPIE 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II, 601948 (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.634305

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