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Overview
1.1 overview

the 1550nm erbium ytterbium co-doped fiber amplifier has advantages of low noise, high gain,
wide bandwidth, efficient pump and stable working condition, etc. it is used on CATV system
widely. As the transmitting nodes in the CATV system increase constantly, fiber to the home
(FTTH) and fiber to the building (FTTB) are popular. When the EDFA is used to cascaded
amplification in the CATV system, the C/N deterioration is serious, so the EDFA must have high
saturated output power, low distortion, while the saturated output power of EDFA is usually
between 13dBm and 23dBm, output power limit is about 27dBm. In addition, the gain fiber of
EDFA is single-mode and single-clad fiber, pump is single-mode. The output power of single-
mode semi-conductor laser is just several hundreds mW, and it is limited by pump area, high
power pump can’t be coupled, thus it has a serious effect on the output of fiber laser. In the
face of this king of situation, a international new double-clad fiber has been developed. It takes
advantage of envelope pump technology, which overcomes shortcomings of the single-mode
fiber, and makes output power increased one to two orders of magnitude, and promotes the
development of gigh-power fiber amplifier. The factory overcomes multiple technical
difficulties, and then developing erbium ytterbium co-doped double-clad fiber amplifier which
is fit to CATV system to adapt current require of FTTH and FTTB.