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DWDM System Amplifiers

DWDM EDFA is key component in DWDM network. It uses an optical supervisory channel power adjustment and extends the power link budget for long distance DWDM communication systems.

There are three main types of optical amplifiers: fiber amplifiers (EDFAS), semiconductor optical amplifiers(SOAs), and Raman amplifiers. Fiber amplifiers use rare earth elements usually erbium, but also oraseodymium, tellurite, neodymium, and others as dopant that are pumped with a laser of either 980 to 1480nm. The most commom used for WDM network are the EDFAs.

Types of EDFAs used for DWDM

1 Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers-EDFA. They are low nosie figure approximately 5dB and wide amplitication bandwidth. The EDFA is pumped at 980nm 0r 1480 nm.
2 Erbium-doped fluoride fiber amplifiers(EDFFA) provide for flatter gain spectrum without any gain flattening that introduces loss. They can absorb more erbium than silica producing flatter
band across the erbium passband, allowing the 1530 nm to 1542 region to be used for DWDM. SNR remains the same, or nearly the same for each channel. Howerver, fluoride EDFAs have higher noise from being pumped at 1480nm. DWDM channels must have flat gain through means of an amplifier to properly function. They have proved durable with wavelength stability better than 0.02nm per year.

In DWDM systems amplifiers are an enabling component. For 32 channel DWDM systems optical amplifiers will need to provide at least 25nm of usable bandwidth. 80Gbt/s with 10 Gbt/s channels need 8 wavelengths; 2.5 Gbt/s channels need 32 wavelengths. These must have high outout power and low noise and high signal to noise ratio(SNR). Network spans now at 360km are expected to extend to 600 km then to 2000 km with use of EDFAs. With optical amplifiers the optical signal does not have to be converted and is amplified optically in passing through the amplifier. Optcial fiber amplifiers generate stronger signals than regenerators and transmission can be for extended distances. This takes the place of the SONET regenerator.

PS: 600 km span with DWDM only using 4 optical amplifiers over on fiber pair

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There are three types if optical amplifiers used in DWDM system. These are:
1 Post amplifier are placed immediately after transmitter to increase optical power to the receiver.
2 In-line amplifiers boost the power level after transmission through a length of fiber permitting the signal to pass through another fiber segment. They are used to compensate for signal attenuation in long segments of fiber. 
3 Pre-amplifiers boost the power of a signal just prior to the receiver.

FiberStore can provide DWDM EDFA amplifiers in different channel from 40~80 channels. These amplifiers offer high optical gain, low noise figure and high saturation optical power which are fully integrated with various kinds of DWDM system.

DWDM EDFA 40 channel BA Module Optical Amplifier

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This product is spectrum flat EDFA for DWDM system. The stability Pump laser and unique ATC (automatic temperature control) and APC (automatic power control) circuit are employed in it as the key component to ensure the high stability and reliability of output power.The unique optical circuit design ensures the excellent optical character. The high stability and high precision MPU system are employed to ensure the control adjustment and display are intelligent and easy. Professional design GFF (gain flattening filter) with excellent optical path design make flatness and noise reach the best optimization. It can provide 40~80 channels, and above 35nm flatness.

The optical circuit is designed especially for digital optical fiber communication system including
(1) lower noise figure;
(2)high output booster and high sensitivity Pre-Amplifier improve the system loss budget;
(3)Broad input power range and output power adjustable make it use easily.
The design of dual Power Mixed and hot swap make it has longer MTBF. Also, the power system can be backup.Employ the intelligent temperature control system,the fan is on when the module temperature over 45℃, meanwhile it will stop as the temperature is under 40℃, which makes sure the thermal stability and fan’s long life-time, meanwhile, the professional air flow design can also ensure the best temperature stability.Intelligent network management system. Perfectly network interface: Ethernet, RS-485 and RS-232 network interface,and the open mib ensure the connectivity with all other network management system.

Applications
Pre-Amplifier Online Amplifier
Booster
DWDM Optical System

Features
1.Low Noise Figure:Typical 4.5dB High Flatness: Typical 1dB
2.Cover Whole C-Band: Carrie 40 or 80 chs
3.Redundancy hot swap power module: 110/220VAC and 48VDC can plug Mix
4.Perfect Network Interface:Ethernet, RS-485 and RS-232 port
5.Support Telnet and SNMP network management
6.Gain can be adjustable by network and manual
7.High Precise AGC and ATC Circuit
8.High saturation output power
9.Flexible Mechanics and Circuit structure (Module, 1U rack and Gain Block)
10.OEM is available Compatible with Telecordia GR-1312-CORE

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Technology Of Fiber Optic Amplifiers

In fiber optic communication, the visible-light or infrared (IR) beams carried by a fiber are attenuated as they travel through the material. Then there comes to the fiber optic amplifier which is used to compensate for the wakening of information during the transmission.

Amplifiers are inserted at specific places to boost optical signals in a system where the signals are weak. This boost allows the signals to be successfully transmitted through the remaining cable length. In large networks, a long series of optical fiber amplifiers are placed in a sequence along the entire network link.

Common fiber optical amplifiers include Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (or EDFA Optical Amplifier), Raman fiber amplifier, and silicon optical amplifier (SOA). Erbium doped fiber amplifier is the major type of the fiber amplifier used to boost the signal in the WDM fiber optic system, as we know it is WDM that increase the capacity of the fiber communications system and it is the erbium-doped fiber amplifier that makes WDM transmission possible. Fiber amplifiers are developed to support Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) which is called DWDM EDFA amplifier and to expand to the other wavelength bands supported by fiber optics.

There are several different physical mechanisms that can be used to amplify a light signal, which correspond to the major types of optical amplifiers. In doped fibre amplifiers and bulk lasers, stimulated emission in the amplifier’s gain medium causes amplification of incoming light. In semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), electron-hole recombination occurs. In Raman amplifiers, Raman scattering of incoming light with phonons in the lattice of the gain medium produces photons coherent with the incoming photons. Parametric amplifiers use parametric amplification.

When light is transmitted through matter, part of the light is scattered in random directions. A small part of the scattered light has frequencies removed from the frequency of the incident beam by quantities equal to the vibration frequencies of the material scattering system. Raman fiber optic amplifiers function within this small scattering range. If the initial beam is sufficiently intense and monochromatic, a threshold can be reached beyond which light at the Raman frequencies is amplified, builds up strongly, and generally exhibits the characteristics of stimulated emission. This is called the stimulated or coherent Raman effect.

EFDA fiber optic amplifier functions by adding erbium, rare earth ions, to the fiber core material as a dopant; typically in levels of a few hundred parts per million. The fiber is highly transparent at the erbium lasing wavelength of two to nine microns. When pumped by a laser diode, optical gain is created, and amplification occurs.

Silicon or semiconductor optical amplifier functions in a similar way to a basic laser. The structure is much the same, with two specially designed slabs of semiconductor material on top of each other, with another material in between them forming the “active layer”. An electrical current is set running through the device in order to excite electrons which can then fall back to the non-excited ground state and give out photons. Incoming optical signal stimulates emission of light at its own wavelength.

Fiber optic repeater also can re-amplify an attenuated signal but it can only function on a specific wavelength and is not suitable for WDM systems. That is the reason why fiber optic amplifier plays a much more important role in communication systems.