• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.505-508
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• 2002

We studied the effect of gain recovery at the optical fiber amplifier by the input pulse trains. We also theoretically analyzed the limitation of the saturation and recovery time for the PDFA(Praseodymium-Doped Fiber Amplifier) which has the spectral gain at 1.3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ band. We can predict the interval between the pulse train, pump power, and the effect of the saturation and recovery time which is affected to the amplification of the optical pulse.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.533-534
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• 2002

In this paper, we studied the transient gain response in TDFA(Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier) theoretically. We also investigated the limitation of the gain saturation and recovery time when the short pulse trains are incident into the TDFA with the spectral gain band in 1.47${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ for using at WDM. We can predict the interval between the pulse train, pump power and the effect of the saturation and recovery time which is affected to the amplification of the optical pulse.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.283-290
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• 2010

This study is on the design of 10Gbps CMOS receiver circuits for fiber-optic communication. The receiver is made up of a photodiode, a transimpedance amplifier, a limiting amplifier, an equalizer, a clock and data recovery loop circuit, and a demultiplexer or demux with some auxiliary circuits including I/O circuits. Various wideband or high-speed circuit techniques are harnessed to realize a feasible, effective, and reliable receiver for a SONET fiber-optic standard, OC-192.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1666-1671
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• 2022

The structure of a high-power gain-flattened long wavelength band (L-band) optical amplifier was optimized, which was implemented for 64-channel wavelength division multiplexed optical signals with a channel spacing of 50 GHz. The output characteristics of this L-band amplifier were measured and analyzed. The amplifier of the optimized two-stage amplification configuration had a flattened gain of 20 dB within 1 dB deviation between 1570 and 1600 nm for -2 dBm input power condition. The noise figure under this condition was minimized to within 6 dB in the amplification bandwidth. The gain flattening was realized by considering only the characteristics of gain medium in the amplifier without using additional optical or electrical devices. The proposed amplifier consisted of two stages of amplification stages, each of which was based on the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) structure. The erbium-doped fiber length and pumping structures in each stage of the amplifier were optimized through experiments.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.58-62
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• 1997

A new, simple lasing loop configuration employing a fiber grating was proposed and demonstrated for all-optical gain control of erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The lasing loop was designed such that the fiber grating acts as a notch filter to cutoff the lasing light as well as selects the lasing wavelength. The operating gain was clamped to the same level as the loop loss and it could be varied with a tunable directional coupler in the loop. It is believed that this type of gain-controlled erbiumdoped fiber amplifier can have several advantages when used in wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission systems.

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

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.1
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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.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.673-675
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• 2007

We present the design and fabrication of a 60 GHz medium power amplifier monolithic microwave integrated circuit with excellent gain-flatness for a 60 GHz radio-over-fiber system. The circuit has a 4-stage structure using microstrip coupled lines instead of metal-insulator-metal capacitors for unconditional stability of the amplifier and yield enhancement. The gains of each stage of the amplifier are modified to provide broadband characteristics of input/output matching for the first and fourth stages and to achieve higher gains for the second and third stages to improve the gain-flatness of the amplifier for wideband.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

A novel all-optical gain-controlled (AOGC) bidirectional amplifier is proposed and demonstrated in a compact structure. The AOGC function using fiber Bragg grating (FBG) pairs controls both directional signals independently, and combinations of optical interleavers and isolators suppress Rayleigh backscattering (RB) noise. The amplifier achieves high and constant gain with a wide dynamic input signal range and low noise figure. The performance does not depend on the input signal conditions, whether static-state or transient signals, or whether there is symmetric or asymmetric data traffic on bidirectional transmission. Transmission comparison experiments between invariable symmetrical and random variable asymmetric bidirectional data traffic verify that the all-optical gain control and bidirectional amplification functions are successfully combined into this proposed amplifier.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.6
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• pp.70-77
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• 1994

A low noise erbium doped fiber amplifier for optical preamplification has been demonstrated. The amplifier incoporates an optical isolator in its midway to prevent decrease of population inversion at the input port due to backward traveling amplified spontaneous emission. Then, high gain and low noise can be achieved simultaneously. A small signal gain of 34dB and a noise figure of 5.5dB have been achieved. With this amplifier, we obtained a receiver sensitivity of -39.7dBm with back to back configuration and -39.3dBm with 47km normal fiber for 10$^{-9}$BER at 2.5Gbps direct modulated optical signal.