We proposed a Raman and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) hybrid bidirectional optical amplifier (HBOA). The hybrid amplifier consists of a fiber Raman amplifier (FRA) and two EDFA, which are ingeniously combined by four WDMs. Gain and noise figure (NF) are the metrics used to evaluate the performance. The effects of Raman and EDFA pump on the gain and NF of the proposed hybrid amplifier are explored, resulting in a maximum gain exceeding 40 dB and an NF below 0 dB. Furthermore, when the input signal power is small ( |
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Optical amplifiers
Raman spectroscopy
Fiber amplifiers
Interference (communication)
Relays
Hybrid optics
Optical engineering