Evolution of self-similar parabolic pulses in optical fiber amplifiers

Z. Chen; H. Sun; S. Ma; N. K. Dutta

doi:10.1117/12.809861

24 February 2009 Evolution of self-similar parabolic pulses in optical fiber amplifiers

Z. Chen, H. Sun, S. Ma, N. K. Dutta

Proceedings Volume 7211, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XVII; 72111A (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809861
Event: SPIE OPTO: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We simulated the evolution of self-similar parabolic pulses (similaritons) in a normally dispersive fiber amplifier. The rate of development of a Gaussian pulse into the asymptotic parabolic regime has been studied. The model has been applied to an optical transmission system with a fiber amplifier. By calculating the Q-factor, we numerically determined the signal to noise performance of the pulse train along fiber length. For the parameters we used, a 6m long fiber amplifier with 20 dB gain is capable of amplifying 200Gb/s initial chirp-free Gaussian pulses of duration 0.4ps with no distortion and additional noise. The trade-off between pulse width and amplifier length has been studied.

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Z. Chen, H. Sun, S. Ma, and N. K. Dutta "Evolution of self-similar parabolic pulses in optical fiber amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 7211, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XVII, 72111A (24 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809861

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