Fiber amplifier with fast transient response and constant gain
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Jun 18, 2002
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Mar 6, 2000
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An apparatus and method are provided for amplifying a signal having several multiplexed channels of different wavelengths. In one embodiment, an amplifier 100 is provided having a doped fiber 120 coupled to an input 105, a pump 145 coupled to the doped fiber to provide an output to amplify the signal therein and a control system 130 for controlling the pump. The control system 130 has a detector 170 for measuring power of the signal and a controller 180 for adjusting power to the pump 145 based on predetermined criteria and the measured signal power. The pump power is adjusted as a linear function of the signal power by including within the predetermined criteria a multiplier by which the signal power is multiplied, and an offset that is added to the product of the multiplier and the signal power to ensure that the power applied to the pump 145 is non-zero even for zero signal power. Preferably, the controller 180 can automatically adjust pump power to provide equal and constant gain to each channel even when channels are added or removed. More preferably, the controller 180 can provide a transient response of less than 200.mu.s when channels are added or removed.
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