Automatic Intensity Control of an Optical Transmission Line Using Enhanced Gain Saturation in Cascaded Optical Amplifiers

Eiichi Yamada; Masataka Nakazawa

doi:10.1109/3.73553

Automatic Intensity Control of an Optical Transmission Line Using Enhanced Gain Saturation in Cascaded Optical Amplifiers

Eiichi Yamada, Masataka Nakazawa

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The output characteristics through an optical transmission system with multiple-optical amplifiers which operates in the gain-saturation regime have been studied in both a uniformly-pumped laser amplifier and an erbiuM-Doped fiber amplifier with pump absorption. It has been shown that the output intensity becomes almost constant in the optical system if the input intensity changes within the gain-saturation regime of the amplifiers. The stabilization of the output intensity is greatly enhanced by cascading the saturated-optical amplifiers. There is a characteristic input intensity which causes no intensity changes at the output end of the transmission line. This technique is applicable to soliton transmission as well as ordinary pulse communications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	146-151
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/3.73553
Publication status	Published - 1991 Jan
Externally published	Yes

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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