Behavioral Variations of Gain and NF Owing to Configurations and Pumping Powers英文文献资料.docVIP

Optics and Photonics Journal, 2012, 2, 8-12 /10.4236/opj.2012.21002 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/opj) Behavioral Variations of Gain and NF Owing to Configurations and Pumping Powers Belloui Bouzid Hafr Al-Batin Community College (HBCC), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Email: Bouzid@.sa Received November 29, 2011; revised January 5, 2012; accepted January 12, 2012 ABSTRACT Six configurations are proposed in this paper to explore the gain and noise figure (NF) variations under the pumping power effect. I propose a new investigation of gain and NF at different EDFA configurations. Configurations such as SPSS, DPSS, DPSSF, TPDS, TPDSF, and QPDSF are designed, investigated and compared. A continuous progress of gain values is observed from SPSS to QPDSF, and a change of NF values related to configurations is recorded. The NF variations show different behaviors at different configurations. High gain of 59.49 dB and low NF value of 4.22 dB are recorded for the QPDSF configuration and low gain and low NF are recorded for the SPSS configuration. Keywords: Double Pass; Single Pass; Erbium Doped Fiber; Configuration; Pumping Power 1. Introduction milestone role in this crucial era. The lack of entire description of behavioral study of gain and NF at different configurations in the published papers will affect the fast growing of optical amplifier and reduce its effectiveness. Most of the published pa- pers are focusing on NF and efficiency [1], gain and gain flattening [2-5], and optimization of pumping power [6] without any research papers which, focuses on the de- scription of the complete behavioral variations and trends of EDFA gain and NF at different configurations. All factors affecting the EDFA are needed to be elabo- rated and investigated to enhance the amplification out- puts. Focusing on improvement of gain and noise figure, the devis