Transmission of 32-WDM 10-Gb/s channels over 640 km using broad-band, gain-flattened erbium-doped silica fiber amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1652-1654

  Sun, Y ^a,d   Judkins, J B ^b   Srivastava, A K ^a   Garrett, L ^c   Zyskind, J L ^a,d   Sulhoff, J W ^a   Wolf, C ^a   Derosier, R M ^c   Gnauck, A H ^c   Tkach, R W ^c   Zhou, J ^b   Espindola, R P ^a   Vengsarkar, A M ^a   Chraplyvy, A R ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium doped silica fiber amplifier (EDFA); Long haul transmission; Optical networks; Wavelength division multiplexer (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FILTERS; SILICA;

ERBIUM DOPED SILICA FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); OPTICAL NETWORKS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031338730     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.643301     Document Type: Article

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