Optimization and fabrication of stitched long-period gratings for gain flattening of ultrawide-band EDFAs

Aping Zhang; Xue Wen Chen; Jin Hua Yan; Zu Guang Guan; Sailing He; Hwa Yaw Tam

doi:10.1109/LPT.2005.859148

Optimization and fabrication of stitched long-period gratings for gain flattening of ultrawide-band EDFAs

Aping Zhang, Xue Wen Chen, Jin Hua Yan, Zu Guang Guan, Sailing He, Hwa Yaw Tam

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Abstract

We present the optimization and fabrication of the stitched long-period fiber gratings (SLPGs) for gain flattening of an ultrawide-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). With an improved genetic algorithm, the gain spectrum of a practical EDFA with bandwidth of 80 nm is flattened within ±0.69 dB by an optimized SLPG. Furthermore, the SLPG is designed specially for a point-by-point grating writing technique. A superior control of the fabrication procedure of the designed SLPG has been demonstrated in the experiment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2559-2561
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	17
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2005.859148
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2005

Keywords

Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)
Gain flattening
Genetic algorithm (GA)
Long-period fiber gratings (LPGs)

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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