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EDFA gain flattening using cascaded fiber Bragg gratings

DALIA SALLAM1, ISLAM ASHRY2, ALI ELRASHIDI2, ZIAD A. EL-SAHN3, MOUSTAFA H. ALY1,*

Affiliation

  1. Photonic Research Lab (PRL) Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
  2. Mathematicaland Physical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
  3. Photonics Group, Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Abstract

Gain flattening of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) is necessary for wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication networks to offer equal amplifications for all channels. Such kind of amplifiers can be fabricated following two approaches: intrinsic modification of an amplifier host material and extrinsic incorporation of an optical filter. In this paper, we theoretically apply the two approaches simultaneously to design EDFA of flat gain spectrum. We use three different modified host materials and cascaded fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) to get excellent EDFA flat gain. The designed structure in this paper could also be used to equalize any arbitrary gain profile..

Keywords

Fiber Bragg grating, Erbium-doped fiber amplifier, Gain flattening.

Citation

DALIA SALLAM, ISLAM ASHRY, ALI ELRASHIDI, ZIAD A. EL-SAHN, MOUSTAFA H. ALY, EDFA gain flattening using cascaded fiber Bragg gratings, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 10, 5-6, May-June 2016, pp.317-321 (2016).

Submitted at: Dec. 16, 2015

Accepted at: June 9, 2016