Optical: systems and elements – Optical amplifier – Optical fiber
Patent
1998-06-30
2000-08-15
Hellner, Mark
Optical: systems and elements
Optical amplifier
Optical fiber
H01S 300
Patent
active
061045284
ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber amplifier for achieving high gain of a small signal, including a pump laser diode (LD) for applying pumping light to amplify weak incident signal light, a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) for coupling the incident signal light and the pumping light output from the pump LD into an optical fiber, a fiber amplification medium for amplifying the incident light signal output from the WDM using the pumping light of the pump LD, and for amplifying a feedback signal light reentering the fiber amplification medium from a coupler, a coupler with a loop mirror, for reflecting the incident signal light which has already been amplified by the fiber amplification medium in a loop and sending the reflected signal light back to the fiber amplification medium, and a circulator in front of the WDM, for receiving weak incident signal light and transmitting the weak incident signal light to the WDM, and outputting the feedback signal light, amplified by the fiber amplification medium and passed through the WDM. Therefore, high gain of a small signal can be achieved in the entire wavelength range between 1530 nm and 1560 nm, and the difference in gain between wavelengths can be remarkably narrowed compared to an existing method using an EDF having the same length as the EDF used in the optical fiber amplifier.
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Hellner Mark
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
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