• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.2037-2042
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• 2014

Three methods for gain saturation tone application were compared for optical wavelength division multiplexing transmission using more than 32 channels. The methods are to use high power distributed feedback laser diodes, to use amplified light sources, and lastly to use one saturation tone and several WDM light sources. 1532.3 nm, 1545.7 nm, and 1558.2 nm for the wavelength dependency of the saturation tone were also compared. As a result, the effect of amplified spontaneous emission noise caused by an amplifier was very slight. long wavelength for a saturation tone caused 1 dB gain reduction and its reason was analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.333-336
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• 2001

The transient response in PDFA(Praseodymium-Doped Fiber Amplifier) is theoretically investigated. The PDFA has the spectral gain band in 1.3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. The transient model includes the transient buildup of the population inversion, the pump power, and the signal power and their transient variation along the fiber amplifier. The numerical analysis of transient model can predict the gain saturation, the variation of pump power and the gain as a function of the fiber length. It also shows the gain saturation and recovery effects depending on the pumping rate lead to distortion and saturation in the amplification of optical pulse. The results of numerical analysis, for the case of the Pr ion concentration of 1000ppm and the pump power of 0.5W the gain saturation is obtained 30dB at the length of 5m and the saturation time of upper level is 250 $mutextrm{s}$.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.457-460
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• 1994

Dependence of saturation energy density and small signal gain coefficient on the active gas pressure in XeCl laser amplifier has been investigated. The saturation energy density was increased almost linearly as 1.3, 1.45, 2.0, and $2.3mJ/\textrm{cm}^2$ when the pressure of Xe and He were 30 and 2000 mb, and the pressure of HC] was varied as 34, 52, 73, and 92 mb. Whereas the small signal gain coefficient was measured to be 6.5, 7.5, 7.0, 7.0 %/cm, which shows that the small signal gain did not varies not so much.o much.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.146-154
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• 2002

This paper presents a linearization technique up to the saturation region of power amplifiers. The predistorter gain polynomials which have optimum coefficients are introduced. Power amplifiers are most efficient when operated near the saturation region. Compensating the amplifier nonlinearities with these predistorter gain polynomials, the efficiency of the amplifier can be maximized. Simulation results demonstrate that the adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) is improves by about 63 ㏈ at the band edge. The convergence and reconvergence characteristics of the linearizer are also satisfactory.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.188-196
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• 2004

Amplifier linearity plays a major role in the quality of mordern communication systems. The Power amplifier should be operated near saturation region to achieve high efficiency But at this region amplitude and phase distortions of the amplifier remarkably increase with the input power increase and cause a significant adjacent channel interference. In this paper, an independently controllable AM/AM and AM/PM predistortion linearizers consisted of two bias feed resistance linearizers is proposed. This linearizer allows independent adjustment of the AM/AM and AM/PM curves by using two adjustable voltages to compensate tile power amplifier non-linearities. The predistortion linearizer can improve the ACPR by 5.3dB with cdma2000 multi carrier signals. And by applying this linearizer to two-tone(880MHz) power amplifier, third order IMD products are improved up to 8(dB).

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.231-238
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• 2019

In this paper, we have studied how to improve the amplifiers efficiency by minimizing the combining loss when several unit power amplifiers are combined to obtain high output power. Specifically, we have developed Ka-band Spatial Combining Amplifier. The fabricated Spatial Combining Amplifier is a Ka-band 20W class SSPA, which uses a 5W class unit amplifier module 8EA designed using a GaN bare die. We also combined The unit amplifier module using 8-way spatial divider and combiner with a hybrid radial structure. The output combining loss of the fabricated spatial coupler is about 0.334dB, which is about 92.6% efficiency. In this paper, we developed a Spatial Combining Amplifier with a maximum saturation output of 10W and a power addition efficiency of over 15%. As a result, we achieved the maximum saturation output of 30W and the power addition efficiency of 19%.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.291-297
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• 1994

A feedback loop with bandpass filter is introduced in erbium-doped fiber amplifier to clamp the amplifier gain by lasing the amplifier at a selected wavelength. The gain and the ASE (amplified spontaneous emission) output spectra are found to be independent of input signal power and pump power variation so long as the amplifier is lasing. Also they are found to be dependent only on the overall loss of the feedback loop. Even in the case of slowly modulated large signal input, signal distortion due to gain saturation is not observed.served.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.681-684
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• 2015

Power amplifier is an essential component for transmitting signals to a remote receiver in wireless communication systems. Power amplifier is a non-linear device in general, and the nonlinear distortion becomes severer as the output power increases. The nonlinearity results in spectral regrowth, which leads to adjacent channel interference, and decreases the transmit signal quality. To linearize power amplifiers, many techniques have been developed so far. Among the techniques, digital pre-distortion is known as the most cost and performance effective technique. However, the linearization performance falls down abruptly when the power amplifier operates in its saturation region. This is because of the severe nonlinearity. To relieve this problem, this paper proposes a new adaptive predistortion technique. The proposed technique controls the adaptive algorithm based on the power amplifier input level. Specifically, for small signals, the adaptive predistortion algorithm works normally. On the contrary, for large signals, the adaptive algorithm stops until small signals occur again. By doing this, wrong coefficient update by severe nonlinearity can be avoided. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method can improve the linearization performance compared with the conventional digital predistortion algorithms.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.151-154
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• 2002

All-optical OR logic gate is realized by use of gain saturation and wavelength conversion in the semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). It is operated by the nonlinearity of the SOA gain and hence to obtain the sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) at the input of the SOA. The operation characteristics of all-optical OR logic gate are successfully measured at 2.5 Gbit/s.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.28-34
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• 2003

In this paper, a predistortion linearizer using series diode is proposed for linearizing the power amplifier in microwave radio systems. The power amplifier should be operated near saturation region to achieve high efficiency. But at this region, amplitude and phase distortions of the amplifier remarkably increase with the increase of input power and cause a significant adjacent channel interference. The linearizer is composed of a series diode with a parallel capacitor, which provides positive amplitude and negative phase deviations with the increasing input power. This type of linearizer using the nonlinearity of diode has improved the C/I(Carrier to Intermodulation Distortion) ratio well. By applying this linearizer to two-tone 880MHz power amplifier, adjacent channel leakage power is improved up to 5dBm.