Effects of self-saturation in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier

• Main Authors: Mahdi, M.A., Thirumeni, S., Poopalan, P., Selvakennedy, S., Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Chan, W.Y., Ahmad, Harith
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2000
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/4718/; https://doi.org/10.1006/ofte.2000.0330

The dependence of erbium-doped fiber amplifier performance on amplifier self-saturation is studied experimentally by tuning the pump wavelength over a 5-nm band centered at 980 nm. Gain and noise figure are degraded at the peak pump absorption wavelength, which shows the strongest effect of amplifie...