• Journal of IKEEE
• /
• v.13 no.4
• /
• pp.103-109
• /
• 2009

We report an efficient jitter reduction technique in an analog fier-optic link employing a Mach-Zehnder modulator followed by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. By adjusting the modulator-bias to $0.089V_{\pi}$, we could increase the RF gain up to 10.65 dB for 10 GHz RF signal and reduce the random jitter by 46.5%, max, at an input optical power of -0.11 dBm to the EDFA.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.16 no.5
• /
• pp.411-416
• /
• 2005

We have designed an extended L-band Erbium-doped fiber amplifier to amplify 1625 nm optical time domain reflectometry signal for a long distance monitoring system. The proposed amplifier has a dual-stage structure without an isolator. Gain improvement of 5.1 dB has been achieved by adding a fiber Bragg grating and a narrow band pass filter. As a result, the 16.3 dB gain and 7.1 dB noise figure has been successfully accomplished.

• ETRI Journal
• /
• v.20 no.1
• /
• pp.28-36
• /
• 1998

A simple experimental method to design gain-flattened erbium-doped fiber amplifier is proposed and demonstrated based on the two linear relations between the output power and the pump power, and between the gain and the length of the eribium-doped fiber at the gain flattened state. The spectral gain variation of the eribium-doped fiber amplifiber constructed by this method was less than 0.4 dB over 12 nm (1,545~1,557nm) wavelength region. The gain flatness is also controlled within 0.4 dB over the input power range of -30~-15dBm/ch through the feedback control utilizing the amplified spontaneous emission power in the 1,530 nm region.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.6 no.1
• /
• pp.70-75
• /
• 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
• /
• v.17 no.2
• /
• pp.117-129
• /
• 2013

We briefly review the recent progress in passively mode-locked fiber lasers (PMLFLs) based on semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) and discuss the detailed characterization of a SESAM-based, passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser operating in the 1.5-${\mu}m$ spectral range for various configurations. A simple and compact design of the laser cavity enables the PMLFL to generate either femtosecond or wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses with high stability as the intra-cavity filtering method is altered. All the cavities investigated in our experiments present self-starting, continuous-wave mode-locking with no Q-switching instabilities. The excellent stability of the source eventually enables the wavelength-tunable PMLFL to be used as a master oscillator for a power-amplifier source based on a large-core EDF, generating picosecond pulses of >10-kW peak power and >100-nJ pulse energy.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
• /
• v.36D no.6
• /
• pp.97-101
• /
• 1999

We propose and demonstrate a novel sensor which can simultaneously measure strain and temperature. The sensor is composed of a single fiber Bragg grating and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. Using linear variation in the amplified spontaneous emission power of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier with temperature, we determine the temperature. By subtracting the temperature effect from the Bragg wavelength shift, we determine the strain. Experiments show rms deviations of $18.2{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ and $0.7^{\circ}C$ for strain and temperature, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
• /
• v.45 no.2
• /
• pp.55-60
• /
• 2008

Multi-wavelength Erbium-doped fiber(EDF) ring laser was developed by using a sampled fiber Bragg grating reflecting multiple wavelengths, which was formed by impressing periodical pressure on the outside of a fiber Bragg grating. The wavelength spacing was varied to 4.1nm, 1.41nm and 0.82nm, by pressing the grating with the pressure period $200{\mu}m$, $580{\mu}m$ and $1000{\mu}m$, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
• /
• v.24 no.2
• /
• pp.81-96
• /
• 2002

This paper describes our design of a hybrid amplifier composed of a distributed Raman amplifier and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for C- and L-bands. We characterize the distributed Raman amplifier by numerical simulation based on the experimentally measured Raman gain coefficient of an ordinary single mode fiber transmission line. In single channel amplification, the crosstalk caused by double Rayleigh scattering was independent of signal input power and simply given as a function of the Raman gain. The double Rayleigh scattering induced power penalty was less than 0.1 dB after 1000 km if the on-off Raman gain was below 21 dB. For multiple channel amplification, using commercially available pump laser diodes and fiber components, we determined and optimized the conditions of three-wavelength Raman pumping for an amplification bandwidth of 32 nm for C-band and 34 nm for L-band. After analyzing the conventional erbium-doped fiber amplifier analysis in C-band, we estimated the performance of the hybrid amplifier for long haul optical transmission. Compared with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, the optical signal-to-noise ratio was calculated to be higher by more than 3 dB in the optical link using the designed hybrid amplifier.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
• /
• v.14 no.4
• /
• pp.449-453
• /
• 2003

In a broadband erbium-doped fiber source for fiber optic gyroscope, a pump-polarization scrambling scheme is used to suppress the polarization dependence of the source mean wavelength. The degree of polarization of the pump is reduced to 1.4% by applying proper modulation depth to the polarization modulator where 10 m-long single-mode fiber is wound on a cylindrical PZT. In the case of using the pump-polarization scrambler as well as the output depolarizer, the mean-wavelength variations due to the random change of polarization are measured to be less than our measurement limit of 5 ppm.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
• /
• 2000.02a
• /
• pp.94-95
• /
• 2000

광대역폭 erbium 첨가 광섬유(erbium-doped fiber : EDF) 광원은 반도체 광원에 비해서 파장안정성이 우수하여 광섬유 자이로스코프(이하 줄여 자이로라 함)의 광원으로 많이 사용되고 있다.$^{[1,2]}$ 특히 항법용 고급 자이로에서는 광원의 중심파장 안정성이 매우 중요하므로 온도와 같은 외부변화에 관계없이 광원의 중심파장이 일정하게 유지되도록 광원의 최적 설계가 필요하다. 또한 광섬유 광원의 중심파장은 온도변화 뿐만이 아니라 펌프 파장과 펌프 power의 변화에 대해 민감하다. 그러므로 위와 같은 변화가 최소화 될 수 있는 동작조건의 선정이 중요하다. 이 논문에서는 수치 해석을 통해서 EDF의 길이와 펌프 power, 그리고 펌프 파장을 변화에 대해 중심파장의 변화가 최소가 되는 최적동작조건을 도출하였다. (중략)