Gain saturation and nonlinear effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier/discrete compensating Raman amplifier hybrid fiber amplifiers in the C-band

Ronghua Chi; Kecheng Lu; Xiaoyi Dong; Wenzhao Chen; Guangming Yang; Zhaobing Liu

doi:10.1117/1.1635832

1 February 2004 Gain saturation and nonlinear effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier/discrete compensating Raman amplifier hybrid fiber amplifiers in the C-band

Ronghua Chi, Kecheng Lu, Xiaoyi Dong, Wenzhao Chen, Guangming Yang, Zhaobing Liu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 2, (February 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1635832

A hybrid fiber amplifier (HFA) comprising an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a discrete compensating Raman amplifier (DCRA) can compensate both the span loss and the chromatic dispersion. The gain saturation and nonlinear effect induced in the HFA are discussed. The experimental results show that although the EDFA-DCRA has lower noise figure than the DCRA-EDFA configuration, it induces gain saturation and the nonlinear effect. When designing an HFA, the setup of the DCRA-EDFA configuration is proved a better choice.

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Ronghua Chi, Kecheng Lu, Xiaoyi Dong, Wenzhao Chen, Guangming Yang, and Zhaobing Liu "Gain saturation and nonlinear effect of erbium-doped fiber amplifier/discrete compensating Raman amplifier hybrid fiber amplifiers in the C-band," Optical Engineering 43(2), (1 February 2004). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1635832

Published: 1 February 2004

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