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EDFA Gain Optimization For WDM System
EDFA Gain Optimization For WDM System
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Abstract: The gain flatness of erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is a key device for wavelength division multiplexing
(WDM) application in modern optical network systems. The purpose of this paper is to correct the gain non-uniformity for
each channel in order to equalize the amplitude gain in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system. The system is
simulated using Optisystem software to achieve gain flatness of EDFA through optimized fiber length and pump power. The
gains are flattened within 24±0.299dB from 1546nm to 1558nm band of wavelength with noise figure (NF) <6dB and bit
error rate (BER) <10-9 for 16-channels simultaneous amplification in a single stage EDFA. A WDM system which includes
an EDFA is modeled and obtained maximum uniformed gains.
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output power of more than 8dBm with a gain flatness of gain flatness is a maximum difference among individual
less than 0.5dB. The fiber length and pump power are channels gains when the input power signals are equal.
selected as parameters to be optimized to achieve the Figure 3 shows the gain and NF variation of -26dBm/ch
desired gain under output power and gain flatness amplification for different pump powers. As the pump
constraints. power increases, the gain increases while the NF
decreases however, the gain flatness increases along with
the increased of the pump power.
The pump power of 10mW has very low gain and
high noise figure while the pump power of 40mW has
high gain and less noise but yield the highest gain flatness
of 1.72dB. This shows that the pump power of 10mW and
40mW does not offer good performance for the system
since the objective of this paper is to achieve the most
equalized gain for every channels. Meanwhile the pump
power of 20mW and 30mW has an acceptable noise
figure of 5dB however the pump power of 30mW yield
higher gain flatness of 1.41dB as compared to 20mW.
Therefore, the best gain and NF was found to be at the
optimum pump power of 20mW with a low gain flatness
of 0.89dB at C-band.
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maximum gain flatness of 0.299dB was found to be at the sampling for detection is performed. The optimum
optimum pump power of 23mW with an average gain of sampling time corresponding to the maximum eye
24.27dB. opening, yielding the greatest protection against noise.
The bit error rate (BER) was measured to be at an
average of 10-14 for channel 1. In Figure 9, the bit error
rate (BER) was measured to be at an average of 10-16 for
channel 16.
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FARAH DIANA BINTI MAHAD, ABU SAHMAH BIN MOHD SUPA’AT / ELEKTRIKA, 11(1), 2009, 34-37
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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