Regenerative Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Amplifier with Unidirectional and Bi-directional Feedbacks

  • Shah, N.S.Mohd. (Photonics Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Malaya) ;
  • Teyo, T.C. (Photonics Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Malaya) ;
  • Poopalan, P. (Photonics Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Malaya) ;
  • Ahmad, H. (Photonics Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Malaya)
  • Published : 2002.07.01

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of upidirectional and hi-directional regenerative erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is compared. The systems are operating above laser oscillation threshold. The experimental results show that the unidirectional regenerative EDFA has a better performance than the hi-directional.

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