Star Couplers with Gain Using Fiber Amplifiers

Mansour I. Irshid; Mohsen Kavehrad

doi:10.1109/68.124876

Star Couplers with Gain Using Fiber Amplifiers

Mansour I. Irshid, Mohsen Kavehrad

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In this letter, we propose a novel technique for constructing large passive star couplers with gain using high-power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDF). In contrast to other proposed techniques [5], [6] where each output port of the coupler requires its own EDF amplifier, the proposed alternative requires few EDF amplifiers with sufficient output saturation power levels. When used in an FDM/WDM star network, the size of the coupler can be increased by a factor of m using m narrowband EDF amplifiers. Moreover, this alternative avoids coupling the pump-laser light through the star coupler itself, alleviating the requirement on designing large bandwidth couplers to accommodate the signal and the pump wavelengths.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	58-60
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.124876
State	Published - Jan 1992

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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