摘要:
An optical amplification device which includes first and second optical amplifiers, and a controller. The first optical amplifier receives a light and amplifies the received light. The second optical amplifier receives the light amplified by the first optical amplifier, and amplifies the received light. When a level of the light received by the first optical amplifier changes by Δ, the controller controls a level of the light received by the second optical amplifier to change by approximately −Δ. In various embodiments, the controller causes the sum of the gains of the first and second optical amplifiers to be constant. In other embodiments, the optical amplification device includes first and second optical amplifier and a gain adjustor. The gain adjustor detects a deviation in gain of the first optical amplifier from a target gain, and adjusts the gain of the second optical amplifier to compensate for the detected deviation.
摘要:
An optical amplification device which includes first and second optical amplifiers, and a controller. The first optical amplifier receives a light and amplifies the received light. The second optical amplifier receives the light amplified by the first optical amplifier, and amplifies the received light. When a level of the light received by the first optical amplifier changes by Δ, the controller controls a level of the light received by the second optical amplifier to change by approximately −Δ. In various embodiments, the controller causes the sum of the gains of the first and second optical amplifiers to be constant. In other embodiments, the optical amplification device includes first and second optical amplifier and a gain adjustor. The gain adjustor detects a deviation in gain of the first optical amplifier from a target gain, and adjusts the gain of the second optical amplifier to compensate for the detected deviation.
摘要:
An optical amplifier includes an optical amplification medium, an excitation source to stimulate the amplification medium to output at least one wavelength gain peak, and a gain equalizer to equalize the output of the amplification medium such that gain is produced at wavelengths other than the wavelength gain peak. The gain equalizer may attenuate gain at the peak wavelength. The gain equalizer may equalize the output of the amplification medium such that gain is produced at wavelengths less than the wavelength gain peak. The optical amplifier may include both a gain equalizer and automatic level control circuitry to respectively maintain substantially uniform gain at wavelengths within an optical signal band and maintain constant output power.
摘要:
An optical amplifier of the invention comprises first and second optical amplification sections connected in a cascade manner between an input terminal and an output terminal. Optical isolators which block C-band ASE travelling in an opposite direction to L-band signal light, are inserted on the amplification medium of each of the optical amplification sections. A constant gain control section calculates the number of wavelengths based on the input power of signal light, and controls the pumping light power of each optical amplification section at a constant slope with respect to the number of wavelengths, so that the respective gains in the optical amplification sections corresponding to the number of wavelengths each become constant. As a result, it is possible to maintain flat gain wavelength characteristics even when receiving input of WDM light where the number of wavelengths varies rapidly over a wide range.
摘要:
Both wavelength dispersion and a dispersion slope of a line fiber are simultaneously compensated for by combining two types of dispersion compensators having different characteristics.
摘要:
An optical amplifier having an optical waveguide structure which includes a first region in which a first dopant (for example, Er) is doped in a first glass composition (for example, Al--Si glass) and a second region in which a second dopant (for example, Er) and a third dopant (for example, Yb) are doped in a second glass composition (for example, Al--P--Si glass). The first dopant is pumped so that the optical waveguide structure may provide a first gain characteristic determined by the first glass composition and the first dopant. The third dopant is pumped so that the optical waveguide structure may provide a second gain characteristic determined by the second glass composition and the second dopant. By selectively obtaining the first and second gain characteristics, where the optical amplifier is applied to WDM (wavelength division multiplexing), the output powers of optical signals of different channels can be controlled independently of each other.
摘要:
An optical fiber amplifier is disclosed wherein pumping light and signal light are introduced into an optical fiber doped with a rare-earth element to directly amplify the signal light. The optical fiber amplifier of the invention comprises means constituted from a reflecting film, a fiber loop or the like for causing pumping light to pass by a plurality of times in the doped fiber. Due to the provision of the reflective film or the fiber loop, pumping light can be utilized efficiently, and the amplification factor of the optical fiber amplifier is improved.
摘要:
An optical waveguide having a first cross section is thinned to constitute a thinned portion having a second cross section, as long as a predetermined length. Surface of the thinned portion is contacted with a laser glass member doped with a rare earth element, such as Er. Due to the thinned diameter, the optical fiber is optically coupled with the laser glass member. A pumping light is input to either into the optical waveguide together with a signal light or directly into the laser glass member. Signal light coupled from the thinned portion to the laser glass member is amplified by stimulated emission of the laser glass. Thus amplified signal light is coupled back to the thinned portion so as to propagate along the optical waveguide. The thinned portion can be as short as several centi-meters compared with ten meters to more than one hundred meters of conventional optical amplifier. In the optical waveguide where the pumping light is directly input to the laser glass member, the complicated multiplexer is not necessary, resulting in a reliable operation of the amplifier.
摘要:
A negative photosensitive resin composition which contains (A) an epoxy resin that has two or more epoxy groups in each molecule, (B) an alkali-soluble resin and (C) a cationic photopolymerization initiator. The epoxy resin (A) is an epoxy resin that is obtained by a reaction between a phenol derivative represented by formula (1) and an epihalohydrin.
摘要:
The present invention has an object to provide an optical amplifier capable of realizing a good response characteristic in a wide frequency band, even when a population inversion state is formed by a pumping light supplied to an optical amplification medium and an ASE light generated in the optical amplification medium. To this end, in the optical amplifier according to the present invention, a delayed phase matching fiber in which a first fiber whose response speed is relatively low is arranged on the input side and a second fiber whose response speed is relatively high is arranged on the output side, is used as the optical amplification medium doped with a rare-earth element.