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Effects of an auxiliary pump on the performance of TDFA

Laser Physics (impact factor: 3.61). 07/2008; 18(8):977-982. DOI:10.1134/S1054660X08080112 pp.977-982

ABSTRACT An efficient fluoride-based thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) is theoretically demonstrated using a dual pumping scheme.
Differential equations are solved directly in the theoretical analysis. An auxiliary pump at 1560 nm is used for ground-state
absorption to enhance the excited-state absorption provided by the main pump of 1050 nm and, thus, to improve the gain and
noise figure of the TDFA. A gain improvement of more than 10 dB is obtained at the 1470-nm region with the use of a 1560-nm
pump at 20 mW. A small signal gain as high as 30 dB is obtained at this region with 100 mW of a 1050-nm pump and 20 mW of
a 1560-nm pump using a 20-m of thulium-doped fiber. The corresponding noise figure is obtained at lower than 5 dB.

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Keywords

corresponding noise figure
 
Differential equations
 
dual
 
efficient fluoride-based thulium-doped fiber amplifier
 
excited-state absorption
 
gain improvement
 
main pump
 
noise figure
 
small signal gain
 
theoretical analysis