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High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers

High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers
High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers
We investigate the operation of holmium-doped fibre amplifiers (HDFAs) in the 2.1 µm spectral region. For the first time we demonstrate a diode-pumped HDFA. This amplifier provides a peak gain of 25 dB at 2040 nm with a 15 dB gain window spanning the wavelength range 2030-2100 nm with an external noise figure (NF) of 4-6 dB. We also compare the operation of HDFAs when pumped at 1950 nm and 2008 nm. The 1950 nm pumped HDFA provides 41 dB peak gain at 2060 nm with 15 dB of gain spanning the wavelength range 2050-2120 nm and an external NF of 7-10 dB. By pumping at the longer wavelength of 2008 nm the gain bandwidth of the amplifier is shifted to longer wavelengths and using this architecture a HDFA was demonstrated with a peak gain of 39 dB at 2090 nm and 15 dB of gain spanning the wavelength range 2050-2150 nm. The external NF over this wavelength range was 8-14 dB.
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13946-13956
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Simakov, Nikita, Li, Zhihong, Jung, Yongmin, Daniel, Jae M.O., Barua, Pranabesh, Shardlow, Peter C., Liang, Sijing, Sahu, Jayanta K., Hemming, Alexander, Clarkson, W. Andrew, Alam, Shaif-ul and Richardson, David J. (2016) High gain holmium-doped fibre amplifiers. Optics Express, 24 (13), 13946-13956. (doi:10.1364/OE.24.013946).

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Abstract

We investigate the operation of holmium-doped fibre amplifiers (HDFAs) in the 2.1 µm spectral region. For the first time we demonstrate a diode-pumped HDFA. This amplifier provides a peak gain of 25 dB at 2040 nm with a 15 dB gain window spanning the wavelength range 2030-2100 nm with an external noise figure (NF) of 4-6 dB. We also compare the operation of HDFAs when pumped at 1950 nm and 2008 nm. The 1950 nm pumped HDFA provides 41 dB peak gain at 2060 nm with 15 dB of gain spanning the wavelength range 2050-2120 nm and an external NF of 7-10 dB. By pumping at the longer wavelength of 2008 nm the gain bandwidth of the amplifier is shifted to longer wavelengths and using this architecture a HDFA was demonstrated with a peak gain of 39 dB at 2090 nm and 15 dB of gain spanning the wavelength range 2050-2150 nm. The external NF over this wavelength range was 8-14 dB.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 June 2016
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 397192
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397192
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 3721415a-2d6d-48f6-9ceb-d04d2b9af47f
ORCID for Yongmin Jung: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-4372
ORCID for Peter C. Shardlow: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0459-0581
ORCID for Jayanta K. Sahu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3560-6152
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 29 Jun 2016 14:18
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:41

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Author: Nikita Simakov
Author: Zhihong Li
Author: Yongmin Jung ORCID iD
Author: Jae M.O. Daniel
Author: Pranabesh Barua
Author: Sijing Liang
Author: Jayanta K. Sahu ORCID iD
Author: Alexander Hemming
Author: Shaif-ul Alam

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