• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2022

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) have saturated the technological market but are still widely used in high-speed and long-distance communication systems. To overcome EDFA saturation and limitations, its erbium-doped fiber is co-doped with other materials such as zirconia and bismuth. This article demonstrates and compares the performance using three different fibers as the gain medium for zirconia-erbium-doped fibers (Zr-EDF), bismuth-erbium-doped fibers (Bi-EDF), and commercial silica-erbium-doped fibers (Si- EDF). The optical amplifier was configured with a double-pass amplification system, with a broadband mirror at the end of its configuration to allow double-pass operation in the system. The important parameters in amplifiers such as optical properties, optical amplification and noise values were also examined and discussed. All three fibers were 0.5 m long and entered with different input signals: 30 dBm for low input and 10 dBm for high input. Zr-EDF turned out to be the most relevant optical amplifier as it had the highest optical gain, longest transmission distance, highest average flatness gain with minimal jitter, and relevant noise figures suitable for the latest communication technology.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 1995

Erbium 첨가 광섬유를 광원겸 광증폭기로 사용하는 방식으로 개회로 형태의 광섬유 gyroscope를 구성하였다. Erbium 첨가 광섬유를 거쳐 5mW 이상의 gyro 출력광 power와 7nm의 파장선폭을 얻었다. Loop 광섬유로부터 광증폭기형 광원으로의 feedback으로 인하여 회전속도에 따라 scale factor가 변화함을 관찰할 수 있었다. 그러나 변조된 gyro 출력신호광의 평균 power가 회전속도에 무관하도록 위상차의 변조진폭을 $\PHI_m=2.405 rad$으로 한 경우에 회전속도와 무관한 일정한 scale factor를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2003

For a more detailed understanding of the mechanism of an L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier, we investigated 980 nm absorption, signal amplification and forward and backward amplified spontaneous emission along the erbium-doped fiber. In addition, we compared performances of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier with and without a fiber Bragg grating.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2008

This paper reports the design of a multiwavelength fiber laser source that utilizes a linear cavity of hybrid Brillouin/Erbium fiber laser (BEFL). The output power, threshold power and free running cavity modes were investigated against the pump powers. The structure exhibited low threshold operation of 4 mW at 2.3 mW injected Brillouin pump power. The optimization of Brillouin pump wavelength, power and Erbium gain led to a maximum possible number of channels generated. Simultaneous and stable operation of 21 channels with 10.88 GHz channels spacing were obtained from this architecture at 1 mW injected Brillouin pump power and 90 m W Erbium doped fiber pump power in the 1555 nm region.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.58-62
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• 1997

광섬유격자를 이용하는 단순구조의 발진 loop를 구성하여 erbium 첨가 광섬유 증폭기를 발진시킴으로써 광섬유 증폭기의 동작이득을 제어하는 방식을 제안하고 실험하였다. 하나의 광섬유격자가 loop내에서 발진 파장을 선택하는 기능과 함께 발진광이 출력단으로 나오지 못하도록 차단하는 기능의 두가지의 역할을 수행하도록 loop가 구성되었다. 광섬유 증폭기의 동작이득이 발진 loop의 손실과 같은 크기에 고정되어 입력광 파워의 변화에 무관하게 일정하게 제어되었으며, 가변형 결합기로 loop 손실을 변화시킴으로써 동작이득의 조절이 가능하였다. 이러한 loop 구성방식으로 이득제어된 erbium 첨가 광섬유 증폭기는 WDM 시스템에서 여러 가지의 장점을 가질 수 있다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.213-216
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• 2014

The microstructure and varistor properties of ZPCCAE ($ZnO-Pr_6O_{11}-CoO-Cr_2O_3-Al_2O_3-Er_2O_3$) ceramics were investigated with different erbium amounts. Analysis of the microstructure indicated that the ceramics consisted of ZnO grains as a bulk phase, and intergranular layers (mixture of $Pr_6O_{11}$ and $Er_2O_3$) as a minor secondary phase. With the increase of the doped erbium amount, the densities of sintered pellets increased from 5.63 to $5.82g/cm^3$, and the average grain size decreased from 9.0 to $5.7{\mu}m$. The increase of the doped erbium amount increased the breakdown field from 2,649 to 5,074 V/cm, and the nonlinear coefficient from 27.6 to 39.1. It was found that in the range of 0.25 to 0.5 mol%, the doped erbium had little effect on the microstructure and electrical properties.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.3-8
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• 1993

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.460-465
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• 2003

Double-pass forward(DPF) 방식으로 구성되고 0.98 $\mu$m 파장 대역으로 펌핑된 자이로스코프용 erbium 첨가 광섬유(EDF) 광원의 출력광 특성을 수치계산을 이용하여 분석하였다. EDF길이, 펌프 power, 그리고 펌프 파장 등의 변화에 따른 출력광 power, 파장선폭, 중심파장 안정성 둥을 분석하였으며 일부 특성에 대하여 실험결과와 비교ㆍ검증하였다. 그 결과, DPF 방식의 EDF 광원에서 광원의 특성이 EDF 길이에 크게 의존함을 알 수 있었으며 펌프 power와 펌프 파장의 변화에 대해서 안정된 중심파장을 얻을 수 있는 최적 동작조건도 존재함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.540-541
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• 2002

In this paper, the performance of upidirectional and hi-directional regenerative erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is compared. The systems are operating above laser oscillation threshold. The experimental results show that the unidirectional regenerative EDFA has a better performance than the hi-directional.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권10호
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• pp.1820-1822
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• 2007

In this paper we fabricated a fiber device composed of cascaded long-period fiber gratings between which a birefringent erbium-doped fiber was inserted and proposed its application as a polarization-controlled interleaved signal gating fiber device. Because the core and cladding modes of the fabricated fiber device have polarization-dependent phase difference due to the birefringence of the erbium-doped fiber, its interference spectrum can be modulated by varying the input polarization.