Optimized power performance and tunability modeling of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Maria Thereza Miranda Rocco Giraldi; Sergio Celaschi

doi:10.1117/12.228867

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27 December 1995 Optimized power performance and tunability modeling of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Maria Thereza Miranda Rocco Giraldi, Sergio Celaschi

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Proceedings Volume 2613, Emerging Components and Technologies for All-Optical Networks; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228867
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

The optimized power performance and the spectral tunability modeling of Erbium-doped fiber ring lasers are presented together with the measurement of the relative intensity noise. A Figure of Merit and an optimization procedure are defined in order to obtain maximum output power for a given pump power aiming the project design. Two tunable Erbium-doped fiber ring lasers were assembled. Their tunabilities are modeled and compared to the experimental results. Good agreement was obtained. We achieved a 32 nm tuning range, limited by the tuning range of the filter used. A relative intensity noise < - 120 dB/Hz, which enables to externally modulate such lasers up to 2.5 Gb/s, was also obtained.

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Maria Thereza Miranda Rocco Giraldi and Sergio Celaschi "Optimized power performance and tunability modeling of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers", Proc. SPIE 2613, Emerging Components and Technologies for All-Optical Networks, (27 December 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228867

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