WO2001011806A1 - L-band amplifier with distributed filtering - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the field of optical communications and in particular to a device and method for providing optical signal amplification in the longer wavelength or tail region of a given gain spectrum.
- Rare earth doped optical amplifiers and particularly erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are used extensively and almost exclusively to amplify optical signals in today ⁇ s communications systems and networks.
- the well-known benefits of rare earth doped optical amplifiers include cost effectiveness, good noise performance, a relatively broad polarization insensitive bandwidth, low insertion loss, and improved crosstalk performance over other amplifier technologies.
- EDFAs are increasingly being used in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communications systems and networks.
- FIG. 2 The total gain spectrum for an EDFA is very wide, as shown in Figure 2.
- the usable gain spectrum extends from around 1525nm to 1565nm and this is conventionally referred to as the erbium C-band. With appropriate gain equalization, an approximately 40nm bandwidth is provided for DWDM applications.
- Figure 2 also shows that the gain for an EDFA drops sharply in the spectral region below 1525nm and the spectral region above 1565nm.
- the performance of an L-band amplifier is limited by at least three inter-related factors. These include a) a reduced gain coefficient in the band of interest, b) self- saturation by short wavelength amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), and c) background loss in the long fiber coils necessary for high gain operation.
- the intrinsic reduction in gain/loss ratio for an L-band amplifier over a C-band amplifier results in reduced power conversion efficiency. This is further exaggerated by the reduction in average inversion which accompanies self-saturation and which reduces the already low gain coefficient even further, resulting in even more length dependent efficiency reduction.
- the noise performance of the amplifier is significantly compromised. However, operation at high inversion produces C-band ASE which will reduce the power conversion efficiency of the amplifier.
- An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an optical amplifier for amplifying optical signals in a longer wavelength, tail region of a gain spectrum associated with the amplifier, including a rare earth-doped gain medium referred to as a gain stage of the amplifier; a source of pump power connected to the gain medium; and a filter distributed over the gain stage, wherein the filter attenuates light associated with amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in the amplifier, such that substantially only the optical signals in the longer wavelength region of the gain spectrum are amplified.
- ASE amplified spontaneous emission
- Another embodiment of the invention is directed to an optical amplifier for amplifying optical signals in a longer wavelength, tail region of a gain spectrum associated with the amplifier and includes a first rare earth-doped gain medium referred to as a first gain stage of the amplifier, wherein a filter is distributed over the first gain medium.
- the filter provides an attenuation of light associated with amplified spontaneous emission.
- the amplifier further includes a second rare earth-doped gain medium referred to as a second gain stage of the amplifier connected to the first gain stage; and a source of pump power connected to the amplifier for stimulating the rare earth-doped gain media.
- the second gain stage is preferably serially connected to the first gain stage closer to an output location of the first gain stage than to an input location in terms of signal propagation direction.
- a filter is also distributed over the second gain stage of the amplifier to further reduce ASE generated by the amplifier.
- the pump source is preferably coupled to the first gain stage at a location closer to an input of the first gain stage than to an output of the first gain stage.
- the distributed filter is a rare earth doped, multiple and preferably dual core fiber making up the first gain stage.
- One of the cores is pumped to provide gain for the useful gain spectrum and the other core is unpumped causing it to absorb the out-of-band (ASE) light.
- ASE out-of-band
- the distributed filter is a non- adiabatically tapered fiber making up the first gain stage in which mode coupling occurs in the taper region to provide the filtering effect.
- the distributed filter is a rare earth doped fiber making up the first gain stage and having a doped axial core and a doped or undoped coaxial annular core wherein bend loss provides the filtering effect over the length of the fiber.
- the distributed filter is a series of discrete filters such as long period gratings that are written or spliced into the rare earth doped fiber making up the first gain stage.
- a doped fiber glass host different from a typical (germano)-alumino-silicate host glass, such as a phospho-silicate glass, that provides a more efficient medium for writing gratings therein.
- the invention described herein particularly provides a device and a method for amplifying light signals in the erbium L-band having improved performance over L-band amplifiers without distributed filtering.
- Distributed filtering according to the invention substantially eliminates the out-of-band ASE generated in the amplifier due particularly to hard pumping, which in turn allows the amplifier to operate at a higher average inversion without self-saturation by the C-band ASE.
- the device according to the invention is illustratively described as a fiber optical amplifier, it is not so limited as a planar architecture, for example, can also implement the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a graphical representation of gain versus wavelength over the C-band and the L-band for an erbium doped optical amplifier
- FIG. 2 is schematic representation of a two stage L-Band optical amplifier with distributed filtering in the first stage according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 is a graphical representation of average inversion values versus active fiber length for various filter bandwidths and filter depths according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 4 is a graphical representation of backward ASE power versus active fiber length for various filter bandwidths and filter depths according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 5 is a graphical representation of remnant pump power versus active fiber lengths for various filter bandwidth values and filter depths according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 6 is a graphical representation of amplifier noise figure versus wavelength in the erbium L-band for various average inversion values according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a dual core distributed filter according to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a discrete distributed filter amplifier embodiment according to the invention
- FIG. 9 is a graphical representation of a representative L-band gain profile provided by a distributed filter amplifier according to the invention.
- FIG. 10(a) is a schematic representation of a non-adiabatically tapered fiber distributed filter for an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 10(b) is a schematic representation of loss versus wavelength provided by the filter of FIG. 10(a);
- FIG. 1 1 is a schematical cross sectional view of an annular/co-axial core filter for an embodiment of the invention.
- the term “distributed filter” as used herein refers to filtering that occurs over some finite physical portion of the filtered gain stage (i.e., the active fiber), as opposed to at merely a single or discrete location in the gain stage.
- the filter may, for example, be distributed over a length of the gain stage practically ranging from about 25% of the fiber to substantially the entire gain stage depending upon how well the distributed filter provides filtering of the ASE produced by the amplifier.
- the distributed filter may include a plurality of discrete filters distributed over the physical portion of the gain medium to provide effective filtering or, alternatively, a physically continuous filter distributed over a portion of the gain medium.
- a single stage amplifier refers to a single section of gain medium pumped by a source of pump light.
- a multi-stage amplifier refers to at least two sections of gain media that are physically separated or connected via a discrete component, and in which each section provides more than nominal gain to a signal. Therefore, as these terms are herein used, a single gain stage can include a series of discrete filters along its length and remain a single stage. We believe that this will be clearly understood by a person skilled in the art. Accordingly, the amplifier shown in FIG. 2 is a multi-stage amplifier having a first stage 2 (with discrete distributed filters 14 in an exemplary embodiment of the invention) and a second stage 4 connected at component 12.
- a multi-stage rare earth-doped L-band optical amplifier may provide advantages over a single stage amplifier in terms of design, control, and management of system architecture and performance. For example, gain equalization, dispersion compensation, wavelength routing, and other functions are conveniently performed between optical amplifier stages. Accordingly, for illustrative purposes, the invention will be described in detail with reference to a multistage amplifier; however this in no way limits the invention nor precludes an amplifier that embodies the invention from being a single stage L-band amplifier.
- FIG. 1 shows a representative gain spectrum 20 for a conventional (germano)- alumino-silicate erbium doped fiber covering the spectral region from approximately 1520nm to 1620nm. This spectral region is hereinafter referred to as the known gain bandwidth 22. A spectral region that is typically referred to as the C-band wavelength range for a EDFA is shown as, and is hereinafter referred to as, the first gain spectrum 24.
- the first gain spectrum 24 is primarily associated with a first gain stage 2 of amplifier 10 of FIG. 1.
- the wavelength region generally referred to as the L-band (or extended band) of an EDFA occupies the longer wavelength (tail) region of the known gain bandwidth 22 and extends from about 1560nm to 1620nm.
- the useful gain spectrum 26 is the emission spectrum primarily associated with a second gain stage 4 of amplifier 10.
- an optical amplifier emits a broad based noise spectrum known as amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in both the forward and backward directions when the gain medium of the amplifier is pumped.
- ASE amplified spontaneous emission
- the ASE will hereinafter be referred to as the out-of-band light emission 28 and, with respect to the instant invention, occupies a spectral region that is substantially coincident with the first gain spectrum 22.
- the attributes of ASE in rare earth doped optical amplifiers are believed to be well understood by those persons skilled in the art and require no further discussion for an understanding of the invention.
- FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of an amplified spontaneous emission
- ASE managed L-band erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) 10 according to the invention.
- a first stage erbium doped fiber gain medium 2 is serially coupled to a second stage erbium doped fiber gain medium 4 at coupling point 12.
- stages 2, 4 of the L-band EDFA are shown coupled immediately adjacent to one another, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various components such as optical isolators, filters, or other signal management components may be inserted between the two stages.
- a source of pump power 8 is appropriately coupled to the amplifier, preferably to the first stage at or near an input location thereof to provide pumping energy in a forward (i.e., co- directional with the signal) direction.
- this pumping architecture gives amplifier operation with a lowered noise figure and increased power conversion efficiency. This is typically accomplished by relatively hard pumping at the input of the first stage of the amplifier where a high inversion occurs.
- different pumping schemes are possible; for example, either or both stages of the EDFA may be forward and/or backward pumped, typically in the 980nm pump band and/or the 1480nm pump band, or other pump bands depending upon the amplifier design and architecture, performance requirements, gain stage compositions, and other considerations.
- An input optical signal ⁇ ⁇ n , 6, lying within the useful gain spectrum 26 of FIG. 1 is input to the amplifier 10 at an input end of the first gain stage 2 (as shown traveling from the left to the right in Fig.
- a filter 14 is distributed along the first gain stage 2 to provide filtering of the ASE 28 as shown in FIG. 1, as will be described in greater detail below.
- a filter 16 is distributed along the second gain stage 4 to further reduce ASE in the second gain stage.
- the invention addresses at least three factors that limit the performance of an L- band amplifier.
- the first is a reduced gain coefficient in the L-band compared to the C- band gain at particular amplifier inversion values as illustrated by gain curve 20 in FIG. 1 over the useful gain spectrum 26.
- the second factor is self-saturation by broadband ASE generated in the first gain stage 2 which depletes the upper energy level population and reduces the average inversion of the amplifier, thus reducing signal gain.
- the third factor relates to background loss in the long lengths of active fiber that are typical for high gain operation in the L-band. The intrinsic reduction in the gain to loss ratio for an L-band amplifier over a C-band amplifier results in reduced power conversion efficiency.
- NF noise figure
- a primary figure of merit for optical amplifier performance is significantly compromised, as shown by the curves 1-7 in FIG. 6, respectively, for increasing inversion values.
- the noise figure (NF) a primary figure of merit for optical amplifier performance
- the first stage 2 is pumped relatively hard so as to provide a high average inversion value in the first stage 2, the ASE 28 emitted in the C-band (i.e., the out-of-band light emission), will significantly compromise the power conversion efficiency of the amplifier.
- a preferred amplifier embodiment of the invention as shown in FIG. 2 includes a filter 14 distributed over the first gain stage 2. The effective characteristics of filter 14 are its bandwidth and depth.
- Filter bandwidth is conventionally defined as the spectral region over which filtering is provided to a certain degree; while filter depth is defined herein as the magnitude of the filtering over a particular bandwidth.
- the filter 14 will have a depth that is approximately equal to or greater than a peak gain coefficient of the know gain bandwidth 22, typically occurring at or near 1530nm.
- the filter 14 exhibits a bandwidth and depth sufficient to attenuate and, preferably, to effectively eliminate most, if not all, of the out-of-band light emission 28, which in turn allows the amplifier of the invention to operate at a relatively higher average inversion without self-saturation by the C-band ASE.
- This leads to the ability to use a shorter active coil length for a particular target gain, also reducing background loss and improving the power conversion efficiency of the amplifier which is already improved by the C-band ASE suppression.
- the noise figure of the amplifier is improved by the ability to achieve the target L-band stage gain (second gain stage 4) at a higher average inversion value.
- Distributed filtering according to the invention thus provides a peak gain in the useful gain spectrum 26 of FIG.
- FIG. 9 shows a representative gain profile 90 for the distributed filter L-band amplifier of the invention. Such a gain profile may still require gain flattening or gain equalization.
- the distributed filter 14 in the first gain stage 2 of FIG. 2 is intended to eliminate C-band emission from about 1520nm to 1565nm and allow the amplifier to provide L-band gain from about 1565nm to 1620nm.
- a filter 16 is additionally distributed over the second gain stage 4 as illustrated by the dashed line in FIG. 2.
- Distributed filtering over the second gain stage 4 reduces local inversion variance due to the concentrated pumping at the second stage input from first stage remnant pump power, reduces competition between backward ASE and forward traveling signals, and further contributes to increasing the power conversion efficiency of the amplifier.
- the filter 14 may take the form of a continuous filter extending over a finite physical portion of the first gain stage, ranging from about 25% of the length to substantially the entire length; or the filter may constitute a number of discrete filters that extend likewise over the gain stage.
- the distributed filtering according to the invention is intended to attenuate and, preferably eliminate, a broadband spectrum of light coincident with the erbium C-band. The ability of the filter to achieve this will determine the extent of its distribution over the gain stage.
- the filter 14 is a continuously distributed filter having appropriate depth and bandwidth to substantially eliminate the out- of-band light emission generated in the first gain stage.
- a continuous filter is shown schematically in FIG. 7(a) as a fiber 70 having two erbium doped cores 72, 74, one of which (72) is optically pumped to provide gain for the L-band signals and the other of which (74) is unpumped to absorb the out-of-band light and thus provide the loss for the C-band ASE that couples over to the unpumped core (74).
- This fiber performs the desired function if the waveguide dispersion of the two cores is such that coupling occurs only for C-band wavelengths.
- the doping concentration of the unpumped core (74) may be much higher than that of the amplifying core (72) to enhance the filtering characteristics. It may even be deliberately clustered to prevent absorption saturation.
- Two aspects of this embodiment include a continuous unpumped core 74 as shown in FIG. 7(a), and a segmented unpumped core 74' as shown in FIG. 7(b). Fibers of these types are generally known in the art and require no further description for the purpose of understanding the invention described herein. See, e.g., US Patent No's. 5087108 and 5218665, the disclosures of which are herein incorporated by reference.
- FIG. 10(a) shows a representative loss spectrum profile 106 for the non-adiabatic fiber taper filter 102.
- the loss spectrum essentially mimics the gain curve of an erbium doped fiber at a particular inversion value.
- the use of such a filter in the amplifier according to the invention ideally produces an L-band gain as representatively shown in FIG. 9.
- Non-adiabatic taper based fibers are preferably constructed from fibers with a secondary co-axial annular core or a depressed cladding which improve the ease of manufacture. See, e.g., US Patent 4,877,300, which is incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth in its entirety, for a more detailed explanation of construction of non- adiabatic taper based fibers.
- a hybrid distributed filter L- band amplifier combines the mechanisms of coaxial coupling with dual core coupling and includes a gain fiber 1 10 having a conventional axial doped core 1 12 and a coaxial annular core 114 that can be doped or undoped depending upon design and performance considerations.
- a gain fiber 1 10 having a conventional axial doped core 1 12 and a coaxial annular core 114 that can be doped or undoped depending upon design and performance considerations.
- power is continuously exchanged between the inner and outer cores 1 12, 114, respectively.
- Experimental results indicate that such fibers do not exhibit the expected sinusoidal length dependence to the transverse power distribution associated with mode beating. Rather the loss of the designed coupling bandwidth increases monotonically with fiber length.
- FIG. 8 An example of a discrete type distributed filter for an amplifier embodiment according to the invention is shown schematically in FIG. 8 and comprises an active fiber 80 having a plurality of long period gratings (LPGs) 82 written over some finite physical length of the fiber.
- LPGs long period gratings
- Long period gratings include fiber gratings having a period which causes light of a given wavelength to couple into the cladding of the fiber and radiate out.
- a preferable inter- filter spacing in a single stage of the amplifier would be less than or equal to about a 20dB gain length at a peak gain wavelength of the amplifier.
- at least some of the filters may have filter bandwidths that overlap.
- at least some of the filters will have a filter bandwidth that substantially extends to cover the out- of-band light emission 28.
- FIGs 3-6 are the results of modeling the effect of distributed filtering on L-band amplifier performance for a typical (germano)-alumino- silicate erbium doped fiber.
- the amplifier pump power was 140mW at 980nm, and 40 signal channels of -21dBm input power were lumped, for simplicity, at 1590 nm.
- FIG. 3 shows plots of average inversion versus first stage active fiber length for the amplifier.
- the plot labeled 1 is the result for no (distributed) filtering.
- Plots 2 and 3 result from a constant filter bandwidth from 1525nm to 1545nm with the difference being a filter depth of 5dB/m for plot 2 and a filter depth of 20dB/m for plot 3.
- Plots 4 and 5 result from a filter bandwidth of 1525nm to 1560nm with plot 4 representing a filter depth of 5dB/m and plot 5 representing a filter depth of 20dB/m. Comparing plots 4 and 5 with plots 2 and 3 of FIG. 3 indicates that increasing the filter bandwidth in the C-band reduces inversion reduction due to ASE self-saturation.
- FIG. 4 shows plots of backward traveling ASE versus first gain stage fiber length where plots 1-5 have the same filter bandwidth and filter depth characteristics as plots 1-5, respectively, in FIG. 3. Comparison of plots 2 and 3 with plots 4 and 5 indicate that the filter depth, once the threshold filter depth has been reached, has little effect on backward ASE; however, progressive reduction in the back traveling ASE results from increasing the filter bandwidth.
- FIG. 5 is a plot of remnant pump power in milliwatts versus first gain stage fiber length.
- the plots labeled 1 -5 have identical filter bandwidth and filter depth characteristics as those associated with plots 1-5 of FIG. 3.
- filter depth is an inferior control compared to filter bandwidth which can be observed by comparing plots 2 and 3 with plots 4 and 5.
- distributed filtering with the appropriate filter depth and bandwidth shortens the necessary fiber length and increases the amount of remnant pump in the first stage for pumping the second stage, thus improving the power conversion efficiency of the amplifier.
- FIG. 6 is a graph of noise figure versus signal wavelength for average inversion values ranging from 0.4 to 1.0 as shown by plots 1-7 respectively. Therefore the higher average inversion obtainable by distributed filtering according to the invention results in lower noise figure values.
- distributed filtering from 1525nm to 1560nm according to the invention would enable a reduction in length of the first gain stage active fiber from 30 meters (without a filter) to approximately 20 meters. Moreover, 20mW of pump power would be saved and the average inversion would be increased from 0.6 to 0.85. This increase in the average inversion value would significantly improve the noise figure of the amplifier especially at wavelengths on the shorter side of the L-band where sensitivity to inversion is highest.
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