Inhomogeneous Gain Saturation in EDF: Experiment and Modeling

Romain Peretti (1) , B. Jacquier (1) , David Boivin (2) , Ekatarina Burov (2) , Anne-Marie Jurdyc (1)

1 LPCML - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents
2 DRAKA - DRAKA

Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers can present holes in spectral gain in Wavelength Division Multiplexing operation. The origin of this inhomogeneous saturation behavior is still a subject of controversy. In this paper we present both an experimental methods and a gain's model. Our experimental method allow us to measure the first homogeneous linewidth of the 1.5 µm erbium emission with gain spectral hole burning consistently with the other measurement in the literature and the model explains the differences observed in literature between GSHB and other measurement methods.

Mots clés: Erbium compounds; fluorescence spectroscopy; gain measurement; luminescence; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber materials

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Romain Peretti, B. Jacquier, David Boivin, Ekatarina Burov, Anne-Marie Jurdyc. Inhomogeneous Gain Saturation in EDF: Experiment and Modeling. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2011, 29 (10), pp.1445 - 1452. ⟨10.1109/JLT.2011.2124443⟩. ⟨hal-00589056⟩