Back to Search
Start Over
Efficient Erbium-doped waveguide amplifier insensitive to power fluctuations
- Source :
- Optics Express. 14:10307
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- The Optical Society, 2006.
-
Abstract
- We describe an efficient erbium-doped waveguide amplifier insensitive to output power variation by means of optical gain clamping. Output power suitable for metro applications and gain flatness over full C-band are demonstrated. We also show that this technology is suitable for transparent WDM ring network. In fact the possible recirculation of amplified spontaneous emission noise or laser power leaking from mirrors will not impact the device performance making robust to transients for next generation reconfigurable WDM ring networks.
- Subjects :
- Optical amplifier
Physics
Amplified spontaneous emission
business.industry
Flatness (systems theory)
Physics::Optics
chemistry.chemical_element
Ring network
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Erbium
Optics
chemistry
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Optoelectronics
Spontaneous emission
Laser power scaling
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10944087
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optics Express
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d3229350e6ed62484669037dd0a03e9f