New Product information from Newport Group
Date: 6 October 2003 • Company contact details
Sources and amplifiers put photonics to the test
A new family of broadband amplified spontaneous emission sources and erbium-doped fibre amplifiers is packaged for test and measurement of photonics components.
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 Newport has developed a new family of broadband ASE (amplified spontaneous emission) sources and EDFAs (erbium doped fibre amplifiers) packaged for test and measurement of photonics components in the 1550nm spectral region.
These products leverage advances in diode-pumped erbium-doped fibre technology to offer a quantum increase in price/performance metric compared with conventional product designs.
The product line includes the FPA-410 and FPA-415 EDFA amplifiers as well as the BBS-410 and BBS-430 broadband sources.
These new products are targeted at laboratory applications in fibre sensing, biomedicine, telecommunications and spectroscopy.
For example, the sources and amplifiers are useful for metrology tasks such as testing fibre-optic components and subassemblies, characterising detectors and passive components, such as FBGs, as well as for simulating WDM traffic.
These sources and amplifiers are also ideal for emerging applications in fibre-optic sensing, biomedicine and fibre-based spectroscopy.
This includes use in optical coherence tomography for noninvasive high-resolution imaging.
The BBS-410 and BBS-430 are self-contained sources characterised by high output levels.
They generate broadband output though amplification of spontaneous noise in a high gain erbium-doped fibre, resulting in output as high as 14dBm (25mW).
The BBS-410 output spans the telecommunications C-band (1520-1560nm) and the BBS-430 source emits over the entire C and L-bands (1520-1620nm).
The FPA-410 and FPA-415 are fully integrated, erbium-doped fibre amplifiers which feature high gain across the C-band (1520-1560nm).
The low cost FPA-410 has a single pump diode and delivers small signal gain of more than 30dB.
The FPA-415 uses two pump diodes to provide more than 33dB of small signal gain with a saturated output level up to 18dBm (63mW).
In addition to their use in conventional broadband applications, these sources and amplifiers can be used in conjunction with the Newport LambdaCommander spectral shaper to produce virtually any spectral profile on demand.
This includes tunable narrowband output as well as complex spectral profiles.
Editor's note: If you would like Newport Group to send you a free brochure or catalogue on the products in this news article, please click here.
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