S-Band Gain Improvement Using a Thulium–Aluminum Co-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier

• Main Authors: Emami, S.D., Muhammad, A.R., Muhamad-Yasin, S.Z., Mat-Sharif, K.A., Zulkifli, M.I., Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Ahmad, Harith, Abdul-Rashid, H.A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2014
• Subjects: QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/14322/; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6963583

An extended method for gain and noise figure enhancement in the S-band using a thulium-doped photonic crystal fiber amplifier (TD-PCFA) is proposed and shown by numerical simulation. The principle behind the enhancement is the suppression of unwanted amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) using the PC...