performance of the fiber optic networks with different physical topologies such as point-to-point, bus, ring and star, with respect to requirements as bit rates, topology structure, bit. error rate (ber) and optical component characteristics including optical amplifiers, filters, sources and detectors, are analyzed and simulated. for this purpose, maximum number of supportable nodes and throug...

Abstract A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system using a fiber ring laser with a hybrid amplifier is proposed and demonstrated. The hybrid amplifier comprises an erbium doped waveguide amplifier and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The experiment shows that such the hybrid amplifier has a high amplifier spontaneous emission power and gain spectrum. Moreover, this fiber ring laser can provid...

We present a high power, single-frequency fiber amplifier based on master oscillator power amplification (MOPA) chains in all-fiber configuration. A 1.5 meter long highly doped Yb fiber with absorption coefficient as high as 16 dB/m at the 975 nm wavelength is used for the main power amplifier, no special assistant stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) suppression approach is employed. The maxi...

We present a high power, single-frequency fiber amplifier based on master oscillator power amplification (MOPA) chains in all-fiber configuration. A 1.5 meter long highly doped Yb fiber with absorption coefficient as high as 16 dB/m at the 975 nm wavelength is used for the main power amplifier, no special assistant stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) suppression approach is employed. The maxi...

Raman amplification of a 49 cm Bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) as a nonlinear gainmedium based erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is reported in new and compactdesign in near infrared spectral regions. The bismuth glass host provides theopportunity to be doped heavily with erbium ions to allow a compact optical gain fiberamplifier design by using reduced fiber length and the 1480...

A 90-nm wideband (1500-1590nm) optical amplifier consisting of a dispersion-compensated-fiber-based Raman fiber amplifier and a semiconductor optical amplifier with gain clamping and dispersion compensation is demonstrated for wide bandwidth amplification with gain flatness as well as dispersion compensation. 10Gb/s DWDM transmission over 100km conventional single-mode fiber link with low biter...

We present a totally fiber integrated chirped-pulse amplification system using air-core photonic bandgap fiber and a conventional erbium-doped fiber amplifier. ~40-ps input pulses, generated in a Mach-Zehnder modulator, were stretched and spectrally broadened in a dispersion-shifted fiber before being amplified and subsequently compressed in 10 m of anomalously-dispersive photonic bandgap fiber...

We propose and investigate experimentally a tunable and stable fiber laser with single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) and power-equalized output based on a two-stage erbium amplifier and a saturable-absorber filter. Two-stage amplifier consists of an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) and erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) to generate a flatter amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source for con...

We report a new approach to obtaining single-transverse-mode operation of a multimode fiber amplifier in which the gain fiber is coiled to induce significant bend loss for all but the lowest-order mode. We demonstrated this method by constructing a coiled amplifier using Yb-doped, double-clad fiber with a core diameter of 25 microm and a numerical aperture of ~0.1 (V approximately 7.4) . When t...

In this work, the construction of a single stage L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier which incorporates a short 5.1 m erbium doped fiber coil is described. Gain and noise figure measurements as a function of forward, backward and counter-propagating CW 1480 nm pumping schemes at different pump power levels are presented. Further, the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) power conversion efficien...