Fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) are regarded as one of the candidate optical amplifiers for future ultralong-distance, large-capacity, and high-speed optical fiber communication systems. FOPAs provide high signal gain and low noise figures compared with other optical amplifiers. However, they suffer from gain fluctuation, which restricts commercial application. Optimization of the dispersion parameters of highly nonlinear fibers (HNLFs) employed as gain media is essential because they have an immediate impact on the flatness of the amplifier. An optimization method for multiple HNLF segments using the differential evolution algorithm is proposed to minimize spectral gain variation. We theoretically yield an FOPA with an average signal gain of 20 dB and gain fluctuation <0.5 dB within 400 nm.
This paper proposed a novel algorithm to obtain a wanted amplifier gain spectrum in order to get a flat gain within a
wide gain band for the first time. In this method three pumps with different power and frequency space are composed to
one pump unit which is optimized with a pre-specified gain ripple. We have been able to generate an optimum
compensated spectrum for the EDFA or FOPA in less than 50 iterative optimizing steps resulting in less than 0.5dB gain
ripple.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.