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Suitability of FBG for Gain Flatness of 64 × 10 Gbps DWDM System Using Hybrid (EDFA+YDFA) Optical Amplifier in C + L Band up to 50 GHz (0.4 nm) Channel Spacing

  • Harjit Singh ORCID logo and Anu Sheetal EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: September 12, 2019
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Journal of Optical Communications
From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 44 Issue 4

Abstract

Gain flatness of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is an important aspect to support high speed multimedia applications for smart devices, cloud computing, big data analysis and high definition television (HDTV) as it achieves equal power for all dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) channels. In this paper, we compare 32 and 64 channels 10 Gbps DWDM system using hybrid EDFA+ Ytterbium-doped silica fiber amplifier (YDFA) in C + L band for 0.4, 0.8 and 1.6 nm wavelength spacing along with FBG for gain flattening. The system performance has been analyzed in terms of optical signal to noise ratio and spectral gain fluctuation observed from the optical power spectrums. It is observed that YDFA although extends the amplification window of EDFA from 1530 to 1610 nm (C to L band), but gain fluctuates over the operating wavelength range. Gain flatness is enormously improved (5–10 dB) by adding FBG as a gain flattening filter to the hybrid (EDFA+YDFA) amplifier. It is found that as the channel spacing decreases (from 1.6 to 0.4 nm) and the number of channels increases (from 32 to 64), the gain reduces due to inter-channel crosstalk and four wave-mixing effect.

Keywords: EDFA; YDFA; Gain; DWDM; FBG; OSNR value

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Received: 2019-05-16
Accepted: 2019-08-26
Published Online: 2019-09-12
Published in Print: 2023-10-26

© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2019-0134
Keywords for this article
EDFA; YDFA; Gain; DWDM; FBG; OSNR value

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Amplifiers
  3. Effect of carrier (hole) temperature on performance of optical amplifiers quantum dot structure
  4. Devices
  5. 1 × 2 power splitter based on photonics crystals fibers
  6. Evolution of Adder and Subtractor Circuit Using Si3N4 Microring Resonator
  7. Fibers
  8. Different Photonic Crystal Fibers Configurations with the Key Solutions for the Optimization of Data Rates Transmission
  9. Networks
  10. Design and implementation of OLT switching function in 40/10G TDM-PON experimental system
  11. A parallel cross-connection recovery scheme for dual link failure in elastic optical networks
  12. A Brief Review on the Methods that Improve Optical Burst Switching Network Performance
  13. MBO-Based Bandwidth Allocation and Traffic Coloring Optimization in PON
  14. HMM-Based Secure Framework for Optical Fog Devices in the Optical Fog/Cloud Network
  15. Attack-Aware Dynamic Upstream Bandwidth Assignment Scheme for Passive Optical Network
  16. Systems
  17. 2 × 10 Gbit/s–10 GHz Radio over Free Space Optics Transmission System Incorporating Mode Division Multiplexing of Hermite Gaussian Modes
  18. Impact of Rayleigh-Distributed PAPR on the Performance of a Pre-Clipped DCO-OFDM System
  19. Suitability of FBG for Gain Flatness of 64 × 10 Gbps DWDM System Using Hybrid (EDFA+YDFA) Optical Amplifier in C + L Band up to 50 GHz (0.4 nm) Channel Spacing
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  24. Performance Analysis of 20 Gbit/s–40 GHz MDM-Ro-FSO Link Incorporating DPSK Modulation Scheme
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