A source that employs an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) for generating light in an S-band of wavelengths. The EDFA uses a fiber having a core with a core cross section surrounded by a depressed cladding with a depressed cladding cross section and a secondary cladding with a secondary cladding cross section. A pump source is provided for pumping the Erbium contained in the core of the fiber to a high relative inversion D, such that the Erbium exhibits positive gains in the S-band and high gains in a long wavelength band longer than the S-band. The core cross-section, the depressed cladding cross-section, and the refractive indices no, n1, and n2 are selected to produce losses at least comparable to the high gains in the long wavelength band and losses substantially smaller than the positive gains in the S-band. The source uses the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) produced by the EDFA to generate broadband light and/or narrowband light with the aid of a wavelength selecting mechanism that selects an output wavelength of the light within the ASE emission spectrum of the EDFA.
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机译:一种采用掺b光纤放大器(EDFA)产生S波段波长的光的光源。 EDFA使用的纤维具有纤芯,纤芯的横截面被具有凹陷的包层横截面的凹陷包层和具有次级包层横截面的次级包层围绕。提供了一个泵浦源,用于将光纤纤芯中所含的pump泵浦到较高的相对反转D,从而使b在S波段显示正增益,而在比S波段更长的长波段显示高增益。选择纤芯横截面,凹陷的包层横截面以及折射率n o Sub>,n 1 Sub>和n 2 Sub>产生的损耗至少可与长波段的高增益相比,而损耗则大大小于S波段的正增益。该光源借助由EDFA产生的放大的自发发射(ASE)来产生宽带光和/或窄带光,该波长选择机构在EDFA的ASE发射光谱内选择光的输出波长。
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