Experimental Measurement of Erbium-doped Optical Fibre Characteristics for EDFA Performance Optimization

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences 2019
Ingrīda Lavrinoviča, Andis Supe, Jurģis Poriņš

The paper presents experimental study of the major erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) features such as gain at low signal and gain saturation by an application of different erbium-doped optical fibres (EDFs). The main objective of the research is to estimate how the performance of EDFA varies depending on the length of doped fibre, pumping configuration scheme, as well as excitation source power. It is shown that a high gain coefficient of 16–20 dB can be practically achieved.

Keywords
Erbium-doped fibre amplifier, gain coefficient, gain saturation, rare earth doped fibres, pump power
DOI
10.2478/lpts-2019-0011
Hyperlink
https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/lpts/56/2/article-p33.xml

Lavrinoviča, I., Supe, A., Poriņš, J. Experimental Measurement of Erbium-doped Optical Fibre Characteristics for EDFA Performance Optimization. Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences, 2019, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp.33-41. ISSN 0868-8257. Available from: doi:10.2478/lpts-2019-0011

Publication language
English (en)