Integrated Optics Erbium-Ytterbium Amplifier System in 10-Gb/s Fiber Transmission Experiment

Abstract - We report the full characterization of a pigtailed Erbium-Ytterbium codoped planar glass waveguide amplifier module. With a single 980-nm diode pump, this ion-exchanged 4.5-cm-long device delivers a signal gain of 16.5 dB, a noise figure of 5 dB, and a saturated output power of 12.5 dBm. To verify its practicality and stability, we tested this module as a power booster in a 10 Gb/s transmission system experiment at the 1534 nm wavelength, and demonstrated the successful bit-error-rate (BER < 10-12) transmission over 72.5 km of dispersion shifted fiber.

Authors:
J.-M.P. Delavaux, S. Granlund, O. Mizuhara, L.-D. Tzeng, D. Barbier, M. Rattay, F. Saint André, and A. Kevorkian.

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