Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Instructor Plans: Computing / Data Processing / IT / Telecommunication, , course: M.Tech, language: English, abstract: With the evolvement of high speed and long-distance data communication systems, conventional band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (C-EDFAs) are getting more attention in recent times. Major advantage of the C-band EDFA is that it provides the user to realize a system with wide bandwidth of 40 nm. But, from the reported works, it is evident that for Gain enhancement in C-band using EDFA is reported with the use of multiple stages, multiple pumps, Gain flattening filters etc. However, these techniques suffered from high cost, complex techniques, and low performance. Here enhancement process was done through the narrowband Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) or fiber reflectors mirrors. In this work, a conventional band erbium doped fiber amplifier is proposed with high gain and less noise figure by incorporating the two fiber bragg gratings (FBGs) for amplified spontaneous noise reinjection. Maximum ASE is emerged at 1565 nm for the at -55 dBm carrier powers. Maximum gain is found out to be 48.16 dB with noise figure of 5.29 dBm. Fiber amplifiers are crucial and fast-growing field in the communication system. The study of this field show that the formulation procedures of lasers generation and amplifier amplification displays a problematical process due to the factors affecting and changing amplifier and laser significances in a dynamic way. Gain, noise figure, wavelength, power flatness and power output are directly affected by any element or parameter inside the amplifier configuration. The design parameters such as: erbium ions concentration, EDF length, isolators, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) position, pump power position, circulators, pump directions, all of these elements and factors are affecting directly the amplifier output. EDFA is an amplifier that is best used because of its low loss and high gain. For communication, there are two windows 1530-1560nm(C-band) and 1560-1610nm (L-band).

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Instructor Plans: Computing / Data Processing / IT / Telecommunication, , course: M.Tech, language: English, abstract: Fiber amplifiers are a crucial and fast-growing field in the communication system. The study of this field show that the formulation procedures of lasers generation and amplifier amplification displays a problematical process due to the factors affecting and changing amplifier and laser significance in a dynamic way. Gain, noise figure, wavelength, power flatness and power output are directly affected by any element or parameter inside the amplifier configuration. The design parameters such as: erbium ions concentration, EDF length, isolators, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) position, pump power position, circulators, pump directions, all of these elements and factors are affecting directly the amplifier output. EDFA is an amplifier that is best used because of its low loss and high gain. For communication, there are two windows 1530-1560nm(C-band) and 1560-1610nm (L-band).

How is light amplified in the doped fiber? How much spontaneous emission noise is generated at the output? Do detectors with optical preamplifiers outperform avalanche photodiodes? What are the current types and architectures of amplifier-based systems? Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers Principles and Applications These are just a handful of the essential questions answered in Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers-the first book to integrate the most influential current papers on this breakthrough in fiber-optics technology. Written by one of the pioneers in the field, this unique reference provides researchers, engineers, and system designers with detailed, interdisciplinary coverage of the theoretical underpinnings, main characteristics, and primary applications of EDFAs. Packed with information on important system experiments and the best experimental results to date as well as over 1,400 references to the expanding literature, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers illuminates such key areas as: Modeling light amplification in Er-doped single-mode fibers Fundamentals of noise in optical fiber amplifiers Photodetection of optically amplified signals Spectroscopic properties of erbium glass fibers Gain, saturation, and noise characteristics of EDFAs Device and system applications of EDFAs In so doing, the book sheds light on many new frontiers of knowledge, such as inhomogeneous modeling and nonlinear photon statistics, and demonstrates the many broadening benefits of EDFAs, including their polarization insensitivity, temperature stability, quantum-limited noise figure, and immunity to interchannel crosstalk. With the demand for transoceanic and terrestrial communications growing at a steady rate of 25% a year, the arrival of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers-destined to significantly expand the capabilities of today's hard-pressed lightwave technology-couldn't be more timely.

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are an important technology for lightwave voice, video, and data transmission. The first volume of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications offered an important exploration of the then-infant technology of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the growth of the Internet have sparked intense demand for expanded bandwidth in all network layers, resulting in significant advances in EFDA technology. Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Device and System Developments brings telecommunications professionals up to date. Combining the contributions from four international experts in EDFAs, this new volume expands the reader's conceptual understanding of EDFAs and covers the developmental issues of EDFAs that are relevant to modern telecom applications. The authors review: New aspects in EDFA modeling, including the standard confined-doping, the transcendental-power-equation, and average-inversion-level models Design concepts for EDFAs in terrestrial and submarine WDM systems Transmission fiber design and dispersion-management techniques for terabit/s systems Amplified submarine-cable systems, including a brief history of submarine cable communications and the investigation of terabit/s system technologies Advanced concepts in the physics of noise in amplified light, noise figure definitions, entropy and ultimate capacity limits Delving into fundamental concepts (including a wealth of previously unpublished materials) as well as important breakthroughs, this much-needed resource will place telecom engineers in a position to take advantage of every aspect in the broad potential of EDFAs. "The book is an indispensable reference for researchers, development engineers, and system designers in fiber-optic communications. . . . It will excel as an introductory text in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on system applications of fiber optics." --Optik "One of the most comprehensive and detailed accounts of the physics and fundamental principles of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. . . . I do not hesitate to recommend the book enthusiastically to anyone having an interest in EDFAs and their applications." --Physics Today

Optical fiber communication system is an active research area for its high demand especially in the long-haul communication system. A lot of work has been done to improve the optical transmission system (OTS) as a long-haul system using remotely-pumped Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (R-EDFA) and Distributed Raman Amplication (DRA). Despite these achievements, there is still room for enhancements and developments to solve the existing system's problems. This work presents a thorough research on OTS using hybrid R-EDFA and DRA approach. The research work includes gain enhancing technique under low pump powerm enhanced dispersion compensating technique, new R-EDFA location-optimization technique, and a figure of merit is introduced to determine the optimal setting of R-EDFA with respect to its practical applications (Post- and Pre-amplifier). Various designs for low pump R-EDFA configuration, in which a Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating (CFBG) is placed inside the R-EDFA configuration, is demonstrated in this research work. This configuration offers two functions at the same time, where it can achieve both double-pass amplification technique as well as dispersion compensating technique. A comparative analysis is conducted to compare the performance of the newly developed configuration with the conventional R-EDFA configurations, this configuration is found to give better performance compared to the conventional amplifier configurations, where a gain of 23 dB is achieved for input signal power of less than -35 dB at only 10 mW pump power. Since the location of R-EDFA has a high impact on the total transmission distance, a new technique is proposed to find the optimum location of R-EDFA, where a location close to the receiver is found to give a longer distance. In this research workm many configurations of OTS are developed and presented. A maximum transmission distance of 293 km is achieved using an optimized OTS which utilizes dual-function R-EDFA at 2.5 Gbps. A bit error rate (BER) ise used as the main performance parameter with a threshold value of better than 10-10. In addition to that, a mathematical modeling for this optimized configuration is carried out in this research work, which deals with the post- and pre-length of the system as well as the R-EDFA and DRA. Finally, in order to evaluate further the performance of the optimized configurations with respect to the previous systems, a new performance parameter called Pump Power Consumpstion (PPC) is introduced. This optimized OTS configuration has a better PPC (0.682 mW/km) compared to the previous OTS.