Design of an all-fiber erbium-doped laser system for simulating power load in backbone networks

Radek Pobořil; Lukáš Bednárek; Aleš Vanderka; Lukáš Hájek; Ondřej Zbořil; Vladimír Vašinek

doi:10.1117/12.2263335

23 December 2016 Design of an all-fiber erbium-doped laser system for simulating power load in backbone networks

Radek Pobořil, Lukáš Bednárek, Aleš Vanderka, Lukáš Hájek, Ondřej Zbořil, Vladimír Vašinek

Proceedings Volume 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 101421W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263335
Event: 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2016, Jasna, Slovakia

Abstract

This article is focused on the design of an all-fiber laser that was supposed to be used for simulating power load similar to the power load in backbone networks. The first part of the article is a brief introduction to the topic of lasers and erbium doped fiber amplifiers. The following parts present design of a fiber laser with ring cavity, and measuring the ideal length of a doped fiber and the split ratio of the output coupler. After proposing the first stage –a laser– we focused on the construction of the two following stages –EDFA preamplifier and EDFA amplifier. There were used fibers with various levels of erbium ion density, namely ISO-GAIN I6, and Liekki ER110-4/125. The resulting output power of the whole system was 320 mW. This value is sufficient when we take into account that we used only single-mode fibers with energy pumped directly to the fiber core. The output wavelength of the whole laser system was 1559 nm.

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Radek Pobořil, Lukáš Bednárek, Aleš Vanderka, Lukáš Hájek, Ondřej Zbořil, and Vladimír Vašinek "Design of an all-fiber erbium-doped laser system for simulating power load in backbone networks", Proc. SPIE 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 101421W (23 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263335

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