Experimental investigation of a fiber Bragg grating integrated optical limiting amplifier with high dynamic range

Shien-Kuei Liaw; Sien Chi

doi:10.1117/1.601800

1 July 1998 Experimental investigation of a fiber Bragg grating integrated optical limiting amplifier with high dynamic range

Shien-Kuei Liaw, Sien Chi

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 7, (July 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601800

By inserting a bidirectional erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) in between an optical circulator and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG), we realize an FBG-integrated optical limiting amplifier (OLA) with high dynamic range. The dual-pass OLA has a wide dynamic range of over 40 dB and a saturation signal output power of about 13.0 dBm. The performance of dual-pass OLA has no obvious degradation due to back reflection of the amplified signal. A negligible power penalty of about 0.3 dB is observed when compared with other conventional configurations. The FBG-integrated OLA configuration has potential application in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems where high saturated power is needed for multichannel transmission.

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Shien-Kuei Liaw and Sien Chi "Experimental investigation of a fiber Bragg grating integrated optical limiting amplifier with high dynamic range," Optical Engineering 37(7), (1 July 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601800

Published: 1 July 1998

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