Abstract

A study is presented into the dynamic characteristics of a unidirectional regenerative erbium-doped fibre ring amplifier at below laser threshold. A considerable improvement in gain and noise figure performance was observed due to the suppression of amplified spontaneous emission in the regenerative amplification process. It was found that lower feedback power provides higher optical gain. An optical signal of –33.5 dB was found to experience a gain of ≥ 35 dB at and near the resonance wavelength using 1% feedback by an optical fibre coupler for an optical pump (1480 nm) power as low as 10 mW.

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