Author Affiliations
Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronic Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310023, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. (a) TEM images and (b) size distribution of PbS QDs
Fig. 2. Energy level diagram of PbS QDs
Fig. 3. Experimental setup of QDFA
Fig. 4. (a) Measured absorption spectrum and transmissivity of UV-gel background; (b) measured PL-emission and absorption spectra of PbS QDs
Fig. 5. (a) Measured pumping power in QDF as a function of fiber length; (b) attenuation of QDF varying with wavelength
Fig. 6. PL peak intensity of QDF as a function of fiber length under different doping concentrations
Fig. 7. Relationship between Lopt and doping concentration
Fig. 8. Output signal spectra of QDFA under different pumping powers, where the illustration is output spectrum for zero pump
Fig. 9. Signal gain of QDFA as a function of wavelength under different pumping powers
Fig. 10. Signal gain as a function of pumping power under different wavelengths, the insert shows the partial enlargement
Fig. 11. Signal gain as a function of fiber lengthunder different wavelengths
Fig. 12. Signal gain and NF of QDFA
Amplifier | Working waveband | Bandwidth /nm | Gain flatness /dB | Gain /dB (at 1550 nm) | NF /dB | Pth /mW | Pp /mW (gain saturation) |
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EDFAs(conventional single fiber)[4] | C(1535-1560 nm) | About 25 | <3 | About 30 (Pi=-30 dBm)① | 3.8-4.2 | About 1 | About 100 | EDFAs(optimizedmultiple fiber)[19] | C(1530-1560 nm)L(1570-1600 nm) | 3030 | <4.1<1.2 | 3132(Pi=-30 dBm)① | 3.4-3.55.0-5.3 | About 1 | | QDFA(excited by evanescent wave)[10] | 1440-1640 nm | About 80 | <3 | <about 17(Pi=-63 dBm)② | | About 35 | About 195 | QDFA(this paper) | S-C-L(1470-1620 nm) | 75(1518-1593 nm) | <3 | 12.26-15.26(Pi=-23 dBm)③ | 2.88-3.47 | About 0.64 | About 23.7 |
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Table 1. Comparison of performance among the proposed QDFA, EDFAs, and QDFA excited by evanescent wave