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Impact of Optical Filter Bandwidth on Performance of All-optical Automatic Gain-controlled Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers

  • Jeong, Yoo Seok (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • Kim, Chul Han (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul)
  • Received : 2020.08.12
  • Accepted : 2020.09.23
  • Published : 2020.12.25
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Abstract

We have investigated the impact of optical filter bandwidth on the performance of all-optical automatic gain-controlled (AGC) erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). In principle, an optical bandpass filter (OBPF) should be placed within the feedback gain-clamping loop to set the lasing wavelength as well as the passband of the feedback amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in all-optical AGC EDFA. From our measurement results, we found that the power level of feedback ASE with 0.1 nm passband of the optical filter was smaller than the ones with >0.2 nm passband cases. Therefore, the peak-to-peak power variation of the surviving channel with 0.1 nm passband was much larger than the ones with >0.2 nm passband. In addition, no significant difference in the power level of the feedback ASE was observed when the passband of the optical filter was ranging from 0.2 nm to 4.5 nm in our measurements. From these results, we have concluded that the passband of the optical filter should be slightly larger than 0.2 nm by taking into account the effect of feedback ASE power and the efficient use of the EDFA gain spectrum for the lasing ASE peak.

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