VPIcomponentMakerTM Optical Amplifiers
Highly-advanced optical amplifier models in VPI software incorporate super-stable and efficient algorithms for the most demanding amplifier design tasks including: multi-band, multi-stage, hybrid, Raman, doped-fiber and doped-waveguide amplifiers.
The same models can be used in systems simulations using the same GUI, as they incorporate advanced signal representations including multiple sampled bands, noise-bins and parameterized signals. Alternatively, doped amplifiers (fiber and waveguide) can be automatically characterized and converted into pump-power dependent Black-Box models for rapid systems simulations of gain-controlled amplifiers, so you can design your own control loop with VPI.
Applications
- Simulate using our advanced bi-directional Raman model with full signal-pump-noise power interactions (stimulated and spontaneous Raman scattering). Includes Kerr nonlinearity for systems simulations
- Import an OTDR trace representing local insertion loss and reflections into the Raman fiber model for true characterization of a transmission link
- Model sophisticated EDFAs with flexible input parameter specifications including Giles parameters or gain and absorption cross-sections, refractive index and doping profiles (includes a circular waveguide solver) or wavelength-dependent overlap factors, wavelength-dependent Rayleigh backscatter and background loss, two or three-level parameters.
- Use the sophisticated algorithms to simulate ultra-long L-band amplifiers
- Investigate concentration quenching, excited-state absorption, gain temperature-dependence, and spectral hole burning in EDFAs
- Design doped Waveguide amplifiers from waveguide dimensions upwards, and including excited-state absorption, up conversion, cross-relaxation, and pair-induced interactions in co doped waveguides
- Stimulate full interaction between amplifier stages, including pump reuse and ASE-pumped amplification
- Characterize amplifier performance and BER estimation using specialist instrumentation, including an Amplifier Test Set
- Abstract doped-fiber designs to Pump-Power dependent Black-Box models
- Explore gain flattening, pump reuse and multistage amplifier design with a wide range of passive component models
- Implement gain or power control schemes using feedback loops and control circuits.
