The maximum capacity of an optical fiber transmission system more than doubled every year to match the fast-growing communication need. The technology break through in dry fiber fabrication opens the possibility for fiber bandwidth all the way from 1.3 mm to 1.6 mm. The fast increasing demand of communication capacity results in the emergence of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology, which results in the need for wideband optical amplifier. Cr4+:YAG has a strong spontaneous emission that covers 1.3 mm to 1.6 mm. Besides, its absorption spectrum is between 0.9 mm to 1.2 mm, which matches with the pumping source in current erbium doped optical amplifier. Such a fiber is, therefore, eminently suitable for optical amplifier applications.
We have successfully fused the double cladding Cr4+:YAG crystal fiber with single mode fiber by fusion splicer. The crystal fibers are grown by the laser-heated pedestal growth technique. The splicing parameters are optimized to achieve an insertion loss of below 1 dB. Since, the core diameter tapering will increase the propagation loss and reduce the gross gain. Adiabatically tapered fiber is discussed. Simulations are performed to predict the loss, and compare with the experimental results, then find out the way to improve the gross gain. Numerical simulation indicates that the gross gain could reach 37.2 dB at 0.5 W pump, if the core diameter of the double cladding Cr4+:YAG crystal fiber is reduced to 5 mm.
In the future, in order to increase gross gain we will improve the mode matching between the cores of single mode fiber and the double cladding Cr4+:YAG crystal fiber. Gradual change of the refractive index at the splicing region as well as high Cr4+ doping concentration can also improve the gross gain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0721105-171457 |
| Date | 21 July 2005 |
| Creators | Liu, Geng-Yu |
| Contributors | Andy Kung, Yi-Jen Chiu, Sheng-Lung Huang, Wood-Hi Cheng, Gong-Ru Lin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0721105-171457 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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