Relevant EDFA features for CATV applications

By the use of optical Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA) in space communications it is possible to exploit the large capacity offered by the optical link, with a considerable reduction of transmitted power. A novel optical system for stratospheric communications is proposed. The link from a stratospheric platform to another one is carried out within the optical domain, thanks to the presence of a GEO that ensure the optical amplification. The optical preamplifier on the receiver end, is the key point for the system design: it must ensure the proper gain to the signal without introducing limitative Spontaneous Emission Noise.

The most optimum modulation/demodulation scheme is discussed for optical inter-orbit link application. The theoretical and experimental analyses of noise characteristics are performed for a high power operated erbium doped optical fiber amplifier (EDFA). Improvements in sensitivity of intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM-DD) system and coherent system adopting high power optical fiber amplifiers are estimated by numerical analyses and experiments. The superior characteristics of coherent communication systems are shown in low bit error rate (BER) but highly-sensitive transmission under severe amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise.

A numerical investigation of the performance of an open-loop optical chaotic communication system for the isochronous synchronization solution has been carried out, under strong optical injection conditions achieved using antireflective coating at the input facet of the receiver laser in combination with an optical erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). Different message encoding techniques have been considered and tested at multigigabit rates and for different levels of optical injection to the receiver. The effects induced by the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise of the EDFA to the performance of the chaotic communication system have also been studied. The performance of all the examined encryption methods for the 1 Gb/s bit-rate messages was quite satisfactory and was characterized by Q-factor values that exceeded 10, after synchronizing in the strong injection regime. For higher message bit rates, the Q-factor values for all methods decrease considerably due to the residual frequency components of the chaotic carrier that are now more significant in the message spectral region. The effect of the amplifier's ASE noise to the system's performance was deteriorated as long as the EDFA chaotic input was kept in relatively high power levels.

The optical properties and characteristics of rare earth- doped polymers have been studied to evaluate their viability for use in optical amplifiers. Rare earth ions are encapsulated in organic, covalently bonded chromophores. The optical properties of various rare earth chromophores doped into polymers are measured and calculated and are then used in numerical simulations of amplifiers and lasers. The result provide an estimate of their potential device performance and establish the fundamental bases for applications in photonics. Owing to their distinct advantages, such as chromophore energy transfer effects, high rare earth ion concentrations, shielding of the ion form high energy vibrations of the host, enhanced optical transition moments and controllable decay rates and branching ratios, rare earth-doped polymers are found to be promising candidates for various device applications. Numerical simulations for samarium and europium doped polymers indicate that gains about 10 dB and greater are achievable in relatively short polymer optical fiber and waveguide amplifiers. Studies of the dependence of metastable state lifetime of rare earth doped polymer systems on doping concentrations reveal that rare earth chromophores dissociation occurs at low concentrations. These results are used to optimize the parameters of our rare earth doped polymer optical waveguide amplifiers.

In this paper, we present the theoretical investigation of index-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) laser with tilted single mode ridge waveguides. By tilting part of the ridge waveguide in various degrees, DFB laser with manifold effective grating periods can be realized. The structure is analyzed using couple mode theory in matrix form based on threshold analysis. Important parameters of DFB laser like resonant frequency and threshold gains are obtained by solving the eigen-equation. The results indicate not only that the lasing frequency is modulated by the waveguide titling angle, but also large Gain Margin (GM) can be achieved at the threshold condition which enhance the stable single mode operation in index-coupled DFB laser.

In this paper we present an experimental analysis of the effect of RF modulation injection current in DFB and FP lasers nearthe first period doubling bifurcation (PDB). By increasing the amplitude of the modulation frequency at the onset of PDB thefirst results of a virtual Hopf phenomenon like behavior has been observed in both types of lasers. We characterized thisobservation by increasing the amplitude of the current modulation where two peaks appear in the spectrum, approaching oneto the other until fmally merging the onset of period doubling bifurcation as predicted by theory. The same virtual Hopfbehavior was observed when we set the amplitude modulation at a fixed value and we sweep the frequency modulation at theonset of the PDB point.Keywords: Laser Diode, Nonlinear Dynamics, Period Doubling Bifurcations. 1. INTRODUCTION Nonlinear dynamics in diode lasers has been the subject of many theoretical and experimental investigations in the lastdecade as they show a rich variety of irregular behavior in their route to chaos1. A single frequency diode laser is commonlystudied by a rate equation model which describes the time evolution of the photon and carrier densities. In these equations,the inclusion of an additional degree of freedom as modulation of the injection current, external light injection or opticalfeedback is needed for nonlinear dynamics to appear2.To our knowledge, the nonlinear behavior in semiconductor diode lasers has been extensively studied by many authors usingdelayed optical feedback and strong current modulation. In the former, the observed route to chaos was through successivesubharmonic bifurcations or by quasi periodic route3'4. In the strong current modulation case the period sequence wastruncated by period tripling before the onset of chaos5'6.On the other hand, the onset of a period doubling bifurcation point in many physical systems brings to nonlinear phenomenasuch as: 1) small signal amplification, 2) shift and suppression of the bifurcation point and 3) the emergence of a closelyspaced set of peaks in the frequency response7.In semiconductor lasers the parametric amplification was observed by Harth and co-workers8'9 which was analyzed byWiesenfeld few years after'°. In the study developed by Wiesenfeld in ref. 10, semiconductor lasers were proposed as goodcandidate to study the rich variety of nonlinear phenomena near period doubling bifurcations. A recent study has shown thatthe effect of Langevin noise in period doubling semiconductor lasers has a virtual Hopf ur12 previously predicted byWiesenfeld'34 as a virtual Hopf phenomenon in systems undergoing a period doubling bifurcations in the presence ofexternal noise.In the present study we have experimentally investigated the nonlinear dynamics of diode lasers in the period doublingbifurcation point. We study the influence of the amplitude modulation in Distributed Feedback (DFB) lasers near perioddoubling bifurcations. In Fabry-Perot (FP) lasers we performed as well the same study as DFB lasers and the analysis of thefrequency modulation near period doubling bifurcation. So in section II we described the experimental procedure for theonset of the first period doubling bifurcation performed in commercial DFB and FP InGaAsP diode lasers at 1,3 tm emission

591-Mb/s noncoherent FSK 2/sup 23/-1 PRBS transmission experiments using two different commercial standard DFB (distributed feedback) lasers and a phase-tunable DFB laser have been carried out. The commercial DFB lasers are modulated with an AMI (alternated mark inversion) code and the phase-tunable DFB laser with a NRZ (nonreturn to zero) code. With an optical filter bandwidth of 2.7 GHz, receiver sensitivities (for a 10/sup -10/ BER) of -38 dBm for the phase-tunable DFB laser and -36 dBm for both standard DFB lasers are achieved. The influence of optical filter bandwidth and modulation index on the BER is also evaluated.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

The worldwide voice and data telecommunications network operates over optical fiber cable using semiconductor lasers emitting at wavelengths near 1.55 micrometer wavelength. Spans up to 640 kilometers are served, without electronic regeneration, using erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers. Typically, a number of wavelength "channels" are multiplexed together and sent over a single fiber strand. The number of channels so multiplexed has grown from 8 to 16 in systems installed in 1997, to 40 for systems in 1998 to 80 or more in 1999 systems. Each channel carries 2.5 or 10 Gbits/sec. of information.

A great improvement in the high-speed characteristics for compressively strained multi-quantum-well (MQW) distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers with self-aligned constricted mesa structures is described. Negative wavelength detuning is an important factor in making possible the extraction of potential advantages for the compressively strained MQW DFB lasers. A 17-GHz bandwidth, which is the highest among the 1.5- mu m MQW DFB lasers, is demonstrated. A wavelength chirp width of 0.42 nm at 10 Gb/s is obtained due to a reduced linewidth enhancement factor that has a magnitude of less than 2. Nonlinear damping K factor in a DFB laser with 45-nm negative detuning has drastically decreased to 0.13 ns, about half of that for unstrained MQW lasers. This is mainly due to an enhanced differential gain as large as 6.9*10/sup -12/ m/sup 3//s. The estimated intrinsic maximum bandwidth is 68 GHz. >

A significant part of optical-fiber capacity can be tapped now that optical amplifiers can boost many high-speed channels simultaneously. The erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier opened the floodgates to wide-bandwidth, all-optical schemes for multiplexing many wavelengths. Until the advent of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier, no practical all-optical amplifier existed. Optical signals were instead regenerated electronically to overcome the attenuation inherent in the silica fiber as well as other losses due to optical components along the line.

Single longitudinal mode (SLM) lasers are important tools for many scientific and commercial applications. SLM operation can be achieved in distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers based on Bragg structures. Semiconductor waveguide DFB lasers are well-established devices, but their output power is limited to a few hundred milliwatts. DFB lasers have also been demonstrated in dielectric waveguides. However, in this case the output power was even lower. Here we present the first monolithic Yb:YAG DFB laser. The waveguide and the DFB structure were fabricated in the volume of an Yb:YAG crystal by ultrafast laser inscription. The DFB laser delivered 2W of output power at a slope efficiency of 61% in SLM operation under pumping with an optically pumped semiconductor laser. This power level outperforms previously demonstrated dielectric DFB waveguide lasers by nearly an order of magnitude. Our approach paves the way for compact, robust, and highly efficient high-power SLM laser sources.

One of the most important technical advances in fiber optic telecommunication systems has been the optical fiber amplifier (OFA). The use of an all-optical fiber optic amplifier instead of a semiconductor optical amplifier has many inherent advantages. For example, the most popular erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) have a broad range of optical amplification in the 1550-nm window; these erbiumdoped fibers are easy to incorporate directly into an all—fiber optic telecommunication system. Today the erbium-doped silica fibers are the most common rare-earth (RE)-doped fiber amplifiers, as they have high gain and low noise. EDFAs are quite versatile in that they may be used as preamplifiers, in-line and booster amplifiers, as well as sources. They can provide more than 20 dB of gain across a broad wavelength band, which enables them to be extremely useful as components in dense wavelength-division multiplexed (DWDM) systems. Additionally, they may be pumped with 800-, 980-, and 1480-nm sources and their quantum efficiency can be quite high.

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Chapter 4 - Fiber amplifiers

We report on high-power operation of a fiber distributed-feedback (DFB) laser fabricated from Tm-doped photosensitive alumino-silicate fiber and in-band pumped by an Er/Yb fiber laser at 1565 nm. The fiber DFB laser yielded up to 875 mW of single-ended output at 1943 nm on two orthogonally polarized modes for 3.5 W of absorbed pump power. Further scaling of the DFB laser output power was achieved with the aid of a simple Tm-doped fiber amplifier stage spliced directly to the DFB fiber without the need of an optical isolator. The maximum output power from the DFB laser and fiber amplifier was >3 W for a combined absorbed pump power of 8.1 W. The influence of thermal loading, owing to quantum defect heating in the Tm-doped core, on the output power and longitudinal mode behavior is discussed, and the prospects for further improvement in performance are considered.