Performance Comparison of Zirconia, Bismuth and Silica-doped Erbium Fiber for Optical Amplification

  • Authors

    • Sufian Mohamad
    • Arni Munira Markom
    • Norbaiti Sidik
    • Mukul Chandra Paul
    • Sulaiman Wadi Harun
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.22.22197

    Received date: November 29, 2018

    Accepted date: November 29, 2018

    Published date: November 30, 2018

  • EDFA, Zirconia, Bismuth, Silica-doped and Optical amplifier

  • Abstract

    Zirconia-based Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (Zr-EDFA) is improved material optical fiber with more than 4000 ppm erbium-doped concentration to solve global demand for huge capacity carrying data information, high speed transmission and long haul with specific devices of compactness. Thus, the length of Zr-EDFA is only 50 cm as gain medium. At input pump power -30 dBm, the highest optical gain is 34 dB (1530 nm wavelength) whereas 21 dB (1535 nm wavelength) at -10 dBm. Besides, the flatness gain 21 dB with fluctuation of 1 dB is recorded for Zr-EDFA. For performance comparison, Bismuth-based Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (Bi-EDFA) and Silica-based Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (Si-EDFA) were also investigated.

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    Mohamad, S., Munira Markom, A., Sidik, N., Chandra Paul, M., & Wadi Harun, S. (2018). Performance Comparison of Zirconia, Bismuth and Silica-doped Erbium Fiber for Optical Amplification. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(4.22), 94-96. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.22.22197