Bidirectional S-band continuous wave operation in a depressed-cladding erbium doped fiber amplifier

• Main Authors: Ahmad, Harith, Zulkifli, Mohd Zamani, Latif, Amirah Abdul, Thambiratnam, Kavintheran, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: INOE 2009
• Subjects: QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19756/; https://joam.inoe.ro/index.php?option=magazine&op=view&idu=1923&catid=38

In this paper we propose and characterize a bi-directional Depressed-Cladding Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier (DC-EDFA) for Continuous Wave (CW) S-band operation. The system uses a Depressed-Cladding Erbium Doped Fibre (DC-EDF) as the gain medium and 3-port OCs to facilitate bi-directional transmission...