Summary form only given. Recently it has been shown that small changes in pump wavelength within the 980-nm pump band change the shape of the gain spectrum of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). These gain variations can be as large as 3 dB in a typical line amplifier and cannot be explained by the well known homogeneous model for EDFAs. Pump-induced gain changes must be accounted for in multiwavelength amplifiers and systems operating over the pump-wavelength-sensitive short-wavelength portion of the erbium gain band. In this paper, we compare the impact of pump-mediated inhomogeneities on the gain spectra of EDFAs pumped in the 1480- and 980-nm pump bands. We find that the shape of the EDFA gain spectrum is less affected by changes in pump wavelength in the 1480-nm band, and show that in both cases the dynamic gain tilt function (DGTF) is relatively insensitive to changes in pump wavelength. The latter indicates that inversion-induced gain changes can be predicted from a (measured) DGTF despite pump band and some signal band inhomogeneities. We present fluorescence line narrowing measurements that explain these results and suggest a physical mechanism for 980-nm band pump-mediated inhomogeneities.


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    Title :

    Pump-mediated inhomogeneous effects in EDFAs and their impact on gain spectral modeling


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    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


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    220726 byte




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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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