Hybrid random fiber laser distributed amplification method based on erbium fiber with low doping concentration

US10491298B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

Inventors

• Yunjiang Rao · Hangzhou City, CN
• Yun Fu · Milford, US
• Jiaqi Li · Lo Wu, CN
• Zinan Wang · Sichuan, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2018
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04J14/02
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A hybrid distributed amplification method based on a random fiber laser generated within erbium fiber with low doping concentration, i.e. weak erbium-doped fiber (WEDF), which includes: Step 1. constructing a fiber link via WEDF; Step 2. generating the random fiber laser based on the fiber link, the pump source, the wavelength division multiplexer and the strong feedback module; Step 3. constructing the spatial equalized gain based on hybrid gain of the erbium fiber and random fiber laser; Step 4. the signal is amplified by the hybrid spatial equalized gain. The present invention solves the typical problem of high laser threshold and low pump conversion efficiency when conventional fiber is used to generate random fiber laser for distributed amplification.